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Wednesday, February 18, 1948
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The Headlines
ERP BILL APPROVED WITH FUND SCHEME TO AID TAX SLASH; Senate Group Votes for Use of 3 Billion of '48 Surplus for the Marshall Plan HELP TO PASSAGE IS SEEN Millikin, Who Offers Plan, Expects It to Appease Advocates of Levy Reductions ERP FUND SCHEME TO AID TAX SLASH
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover
Art Mooney and His Orchestra
#1 at the box office
To the Ends of the Earth
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You Share a Birthday With
- Toni Morrison (1931)
- Alessandro Volta (1745)
- Ramakrishna (1836)
- Mary I of England (1516)
- Yoko Ono (1933)
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
28,597 days ago
(78 years, 127 days)