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Saturday, February 28, 1948

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The Headlines

HERTER GROUP ASKS $4,500,000,000 LIMIT ON ERP FIRST YEAR; Committee Urges Two Billion More to Rehabilitate China, Korea, Japan, West Germany

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#1 on Your Hit Parade

I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover

Art Mooney and His Orchestra

The must-have

Scrabble

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

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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

28,587 days ago

(78 years, 117 days)