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Thursday, January 15, 1948
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The Headlines
EXPERT ON GRAIN FOR HOUSE GROUP ADMITS TRADING; Rose, Who Wrote Two Herter Committee Reports, Says He Lost $1,744 Speculating HE DENIES 'INSIDE' DATA Senators Who Question Official Are 'Chagrined' -- Reflection on Congress Is Seen HOUSE AIDE ADMITS GRAIN SPECULATING
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 †
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Scrabble
You Share a Birthday With
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929)
- Molière (1622)
- Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918)
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809)
- Sofya Kovalevskaya (1850)
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
28,631 days ago
(78 years, 161 days)