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Friday, February 6, 1948
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The Headlines
Truman Predicts a Crash Unless Curbs Are Enacted; It Is Up to Congress to Halt Spiral, He Holds -- Stands on His Ten-Point Program as the Means to Remedy Situation ILLUSTRATING THE UPWARD SPIRAL OF PRICES PRESIDENT SEES DANGER IN PRICES
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Ballerina
Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra
#1 at the box office
You Were Meant for Me
The must-have
Scrabble
You Share a Birthday With
- Ronald Reagan (1911)
- Bob Marley (1945)
- François Truffaut (1932)
- Anne, Queen of Great Britain (1665)
- Eva Braun (1912)
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
28,610 days ago
(78 years, 140 days)