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Thursday, December 18, 1947
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The Headlines
CONCESSION MADE BY SOVIET IN TALK ON AUSTRIAN PACT; Assets Question is By-Passed and Oil Demands Reduced at Deputies' Meeting AMERICAN HAILS ACTION 3 Western Foreign Ministers in Parleys That May Lead to Session on Germany CONCESSIONS MADE BY SOVIET DEPUTY BEFORE THE BIG FOUR PARLEY ENDED IN DISAGREEMENT
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Ballerina
Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra with Vaughn Monroe
#1 at the box office
Unconquered
The must-have
Tonka Trucks
You Share a Birthday With
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Steven Spielberg (1946)
- Willy Brandt (1913)
- J. J. Thomson (1856)
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (1863)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
Gi
ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that
Bobby Soxer
neatodreamydreamboat
Tech Check
Transistor, Polaroid Land Camera & Defibrillator.
Style of 1947
Silhouette: Cinched waist and full skirt (The New Look)
Material: Taffeta and tulle
- Gloves
- Structured hips
- Matching sets
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
28,660 days ago
(78 years, 190 days)