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Monday, January 12, 1948
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The Headlines
JEWS WRECK SPAN ON UPPER JORDAN; Attack on Main Road to Syria Hampers Any Arab Drive -4 Dead, 21 Hurt in Day Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. JERUSALEM: A JEWISH PROTECTIVE MEASURE AGAINST ARAB ATTACKS IN PALESTINE JEWS WRECK SPAN ON UPPER JORDAN
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Ballerina
Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra
#1 at the box office
Road to Rio †
The must-have
Scrabble
You Share a Birthday With
- Jack London (1876)
- Swami Vivekananda (1863)
- Edmund Burke (1729)
- Hermann Göring (1893)
- Charles Perrault (1628)
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
28,634 days ago
(78 years, 164 days)