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Saturday, July 31, 1948
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The Headlines
Porter Is Called Uninformed At House Inflation Hearing; STATING ADMINISTRATION'S CASE FOR PRICE CONTROLS PORTER ATTACKED AS UNFIT FOR ROLE
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Woody Woodpecker
Unknown Artist
#1 at the box office
Key Largo
The must-have
Scrabble
On This Day
At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.
Wikipedia →USS Nevada is sunk by an aerial torpedo after surviving hits from two atomic bombs (as part of post-war tests) and being used for target practice by three other ships.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Milton Friedman (1912)
- Louis de Funès (1914)
- Primo Levi (1919)
- Premchand (1880)
- Richard Griffiths (1947)
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
28,433 days ago
(77 years, 328 days)