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Wednesday, March 31, 1948
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The Headlines
CHINA AID IS VOTED IN SENATE AS HOUSE ACTS TO HELP SPAIN; Vandenberg Gains Approval of $463,000,000 in Far East Economic, Military Relief CHIANG REGIME DEBATED Lower Chamber Tentatively Adds Franco's Nation to the List of ERP Participants CHINA AID MEASURE PASSED BY SENATE
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
Sitting Pretty
The must-have
Scrabble
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
28,555 days ago
(78 years, 85 days)