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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

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#1 on Your Hit Parade

Ballerina

Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra

The must-have

Scrabble

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

gobbledygooksnafufubar

Gi

ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that

Bobby Soxer

neatodreamydreamboat

Catchphrases of 1948

  • Dewey Defeats Truman

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 ExpansionThe 'Golden Age' of capitalism begins.

Time Elapsed

28,601 days ago

(78 years, 131 days)