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Wednesday, August 4, 1948
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The Headlines
3D AVE. STRIKE SEEN AS COMPANY SCORNSh)0*0*0*iCITY 7C FARE PLAN; Union Is Told 24c Pay Rise Cannot Be Paid After Estimate Board Bars 8c Demand
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
My Happiness
Unknown Artist
#1 at the box office
Key Largo
The must-have
Scrabble
You Share a Birthday With
- Louis Armstrong (1901)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792)
- Knut Hamsun (1859)
- Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (1900)
- William Rowan Hamilton (1805)
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
28,429 days ago
(77 years, 324 days)