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Sunday, January 25, 1948
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The Headlines
PAULEY DECLARES POLITICS INSPIRED STASSEN CHARGES; He Again Accuses Ex-Governor of 'Falsehoods,' Inspired by His 'Selfish Ambitions' HUGE PROFITS' IN 1947 Accused Official Headed List of 7 Major Traders in Fats, Senate Inquiry Is Told HUGE' GAINS MADE, STASSEN DECLARES ANSWERING CHARGES IN CAPITAL
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Ballerina
Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra
#1 at the box office
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The must-have
Scrabble
You Share a Birthday With
- Virginia Woolf (1882)
- Robert Burns (1759)
- Vladimir Vysotsky (1938)
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874)
- Robert Boyle (1627)
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
28,621 days ago
(78 years, 151 days)