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Thursday, July 29, 1948
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The Headlines
Southern Senators Pledged To Poll Tax Filibuster Today; Embattled 11 States Force 24-Hour Delay on Bill and Drive Wedge Into Republican and Northern Democrats' Opposition FILIBUSTER IS SET FOR POLL TAX BILL
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Woody Woodpecker
Unknown Artist
#1 at the box office
Key Largo
The must-have
Scrabble
On This Day
Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad: After a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, open in London.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Benito Mussolini (1883)
- Dag Hammarskjöld (1905)
- Alexis de Tocqueville (1805)
- Eyvind Johnson (1900)
- Isidor Rabi (1898)
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
28,435 days ago
(77 years, 330 days)