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On the date
Monday, October 18, 1948
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The Headlines
DULLES IN BERLIN DECLARES AIRLIFT BEYOND POLITICS; Statement Taken to Indicate Its Continuance in Event of Republican Victory DEWEY AIDE VISITS CLAY Charges Russians Started Blockade to Drive Out the Western Powers Airlift Is Beyond Partisan Politics, Dulles Says on a Visit to Berlin
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
Johnny Belinda
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
28,354 days ago
(77 years, 249 days)