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Saturday, February 14, 1948
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The Headlines
$5,300,000,000 IS SET; For Twelve Months From April 1 Rather Than 15-Month Sum Asked VITAL AMOUNTS NOT CUT Sale of Merchant Ships Is Barred -- Policy Declaration Favors a European Union SENATE BODY VOTES 4-YEAR ERP BILL
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Ballerina
Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra
#1 at the box office
To the Ends of the Earth
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You Share a Birthday With
- Babur (1483)
- C. T. R. Wilson (1869)
- Leon Battista Alberti (1404)
- Michael Bloomberg (1942)
- Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1945)
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
28,601 days ago
(78 years, 131 days)