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On the date
Wednesday, September 22, 1948
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The Headlines
U.S. GIVES SUPPORT; Secretary of State for Mediator's Report as a Basis for Peace SYRIAN OPPOSES PROJECT British Spokesmen Commend It to Both Sides -- Lie in Assembly Scores Killers MARSHALL BACKS BERNADOTTE PLAN
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Twelfth Street Rag
Pee Wee Hunt and His Orchestra
#1 at the box office
Rachel and the Stranger
The must-have
Scrabble
On This Day
Israeli-Palestine conflict: The All-Palestine Government is established by the Arab League.
Wikipedia →Gail Halvorsen officially starts parachuting candy to children as part of the Berlin Airlift.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Michael Faraday (1791)
- Wilhelm Keitel (1882)
- Peter Simon Pallas (1741)
- Anne of Cleves (1515)
- Junko Tabei (1939)
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
28,381 days ago
(77 years, 276 days)