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On the date
Wednesday, July 14, 1948
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The Headlines
Newark Judge Admits Theft Of $657,000 to Bet on Races; JUDGE CONFESSES $657,000 THEFTS HELD AS EMBEZZLER
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Woody Woodpecker
Unknown Artist
#1 at the box office
The Emperor Waltz
The must-have
Scrabble
On This Day
Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot and wounded near the Italian Parliament.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Gerald Ford (1913)
- Ingmar Bergman (1918)
- Gustav Klimt (1862)
- Cardinal Mazarin (1602)
- Gavrila Derzhavin (1743)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
Gi
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Bobby Soxer
neatodreamydreamboat
Tech Check
Long-Playing Record (LP), Velcro & Holography Theory.
Cost of Living (1940)
Loaf of Bread
$0.08
Gallon of Gas
$0.18
Average Home
$2,938
New Car
$850
Meanwhile
- Post-WWII Expansion — The 'Golden Age' of capitalism begins.
Time Elapsed
28,450 days ago
(77 years, 345 days)