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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

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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Slang

Slang of the decade

General

gobbledygooksnafufubar

Gi

ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that

Bobby Soxer

neatodreamydreamboat

Catchphrases of 1948

  • Dewey Defeats Truman

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 ExpansionThe 'Golden Age' of capitalism begins.

Time Elapsed

28,430 days ago

(77 years, 325 days)