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On the date
Wednesday, October 6, 1948
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The Headlines
MOVE BY PRESIDENT; Summons to Secretary Is Said Not to Mean Any New Crisis TO REVIEW PARIS SESSIONS Arrival of Marshall Saturday Forces One-Day Paring of Truman Campaign Tour PRESIDENT CALLS MARSHALL HOME
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
A Tree in the Meadow
Margaret Whiting
#1 at the box office
Sorry, Wrong Number
The must-have
Scrabble
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
28,366 days ago
(77 years, 261 days)