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On the date
Tuesday, August 3, 1948
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The Headlines
Allies in Berlin Plan to Free Trade, May Bar Propaganda; United States, Britain and France Are Held To Be Winning Battle in the City -- Soviet Moves Are Countered A MEMORIAL TO UNITED STATES FLIERS WEST TO LIBERATE BUSINESS IN BERLIN
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My Happiness
Unknown Artist
#1 at the box office
Key Largo
The must-have
Scrabble
On This Day
Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Habib Bourguiba (1903)
- Stanley Baldwin (1867)
- Martin Sheen (1940)
- Haakon VII (1872)
- Tony Bennett (1926)
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
28,430 days ago
(77 years, 325 days)