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Thursday, February 26, 1948
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The Headlines
Republicans Win $170,000 To Scan Truman's Regime; Override Democrats in Senate to Set Wide Inquiry With Attorney General as a Target -- Lucas Charges 'Fishing' REPUBLICANS SET INQUIRY ON TRUMAN
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
Call Northside 777
The must-have
Scrabble
You Share a Birthday With
- Victor Hugo (1802)
- Ariel Sharon (1928)
- Johnny Cash (1932)
- Christopher Marlowe (1564)
- Nadezhda Krupskaya (1861)
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
28,589 days ago
(78 years, 119 days)