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On the date
Saturday, October 16, 1948
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The Headlines
BRITON IN U.N. LAYS SLAVERY TO SOVIET; Russia Is Asked for Access to Facts on Labor Camps if There Is Nothing to Hide BRITON IN U.N. LAYS SLAVERY TO SOVIET
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
A Tree in the Meadow
Margaret Whiting
#1 at the box office
Johnny Belinda
The must-have
Scrabble
You Share a Birthday With
- Oscar Wilde (1854)
- Günter Grass (1927)
- David Ben-Gurion (1886)
- Eugene O'Neill (1888)
- Enver Hoxha (1908)
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
28,356 days ago
(77 years, 251 days)