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On the date
Friday, August 13, 1948
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The Headlines
TRUMAN DEPLORES 'DO NOTHING' SESSION, ISSUES 'BOX SCORE'; Listing His Requests Rejected by Congress, He Refuses an Invitation to Blame Dewey
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
The must-have
Scrabble
You Share a Birthday With
- Fidel Castro (1926)
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899)
- Frederick Sanger (1918)
- Karl Liebknecht (1871)
- John Logie Baird (1888)
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
28,420 days ago
(77 years, 315 days)