From the day
On the date
Saturday, July 24, 1948
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The Headlines
Berlin Airlift Sets New Mark Despite More Soviet Flights; 2,811 Tons of Supplies Flown In by West in Day -- Soviet to Revise Currency -- Statements by Sokolovsky Denied AIRLIFT TO BERLIN REACHES NEW HIGH
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Woody Woodpecker
Unknown Artist
#1 at the box office
Easter Parade
The must-have
Scrabble
You Share a Birthday With
- Simón Bolívar (1783)
- Alexandre Dumas (1802)
- Amelia Earhart (1897)
- Henrik Pontoppidan (1857)
- Robert Graves (1895)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
Gi
ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that
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
28,440 days ago
(77 years, 335 days)