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On the date

Thursday, August 12, 1948

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The Headlines

BERNADOTTE BARS FIRING IN HOLY CITY; Arabs Accept, Zionists Study Shooting Ban Plea -- Israel Ordered From Latrun Hill BERNADOTTE BARS FIRING IN HOLY CITY

Read in The New York Times →

#1 on Your Hit Parade

You Call Everybody Darlin'

Al Trace and His New Orchestra with Bob Vincent

The must-have

Scrabble

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

28,422 days ago

(77 years, 317 days)