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Thursday, April 8, 1948
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The Headlines
RISE FOR AIR POWER GAINS IN CONGRESS; MAY SHUT OUT UMT; House Armed Services Group Unanimously Backs Drive to Set Up 70 Combat Units
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
The Naked City
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
28,547 days ago
(78 years, 77 days)