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On the date
Tuesday, August 10, 1948
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The Headlines
Murtagh Reveals Discounts On Milk as High as 10% Here; Murtagh Finds 10% Milk Rebates; To Look for 'Identical Discounts'
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You Call Everybody Darlin'
Al Trace and His New Orchestra with Bob Vincent
#1 at the box office
Key Largo
The must-have
Scrabble
On This Day
Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as The Candid Microphone.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Herbert Hoover (1874)
- Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (1810)
- Jorge Amado (1912)
- Anwar Ibrahim (1947)
- Wolfgang Paul (1913)
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
28,423 days ago
(77 years, 318 days)