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Friday, February 27, 1948
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The Headlines
SOUTH KOREA POLL BY BOARD ORDERED IN LITTLE ASSEMBLY; U.N. Vote of 31 to 2 Overrides Objections to Elections in the U.S. Zone Alone CANADA MAY QUIT GROUP Holds Step Unconstitutional Under Charter -- Communists Cause Riots in Seoul U.N. POLL ORDERED FOR SOUTH KOREA
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
- Constantine the Great (272)
- John Steinbeck (1902)
- Elizabeth Taylor (1932)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807)
- Joanne Woodward (1930)
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
28,588 days ago
(78 years, 118 days)