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Monday, August 9, 1948
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The Headlines
POLES, CZECHS PLAN RIVAL OF THE RUHR; Both Nations to Rear Industrial Center in Katowice-Ostrava Area, With Baltic Link Czechs, Poles Plan Huge Industrial Center To Rival Ruhr in Katowice-Ostrava Area
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
You Call Everybody Darlin'
Al Trace and His New Orchestra with Bob Vincent
#1 at the box office
Key Largo
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Scrabble
You Share a Birthday With
- Jean Piaget (1896)
- Romano Prodi (1939)
- Amedeo Avogadro (1776)
- Leonid Kuchma (1938)
- Tove Jansson (1914)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
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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
28,424 days ago
(77 years, 319 days)