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Monday, March 15, 1948
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The Headlines
MAYOR'S ADVISERS TO URGE FARE RISE EFFECTIVE JULY 1; It Is Seen as Only Alternative to Slashes in City Services and Denial of Pay Increases BUDGET JOB BEGINS TODAY Lazarus and Patterson Must Hand Figures to Estimate Board by April 1 MAYOR'S ADVISERS TO URGE FARE RISE
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)
Peggy Lee with Dave Barbour and the Brazilians
#1 at the box office
Saigon
The must-have
Scrabble
You Share a Birthday With
- Andrew Jackson (1767)
- Paul Heyse (1830)
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933)
- Emil von Behring (1854)
- Zhores Alferov (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
28,571 days ago
(78 years, 101 days)