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Friday, April 16, 1948
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The Headlines
Lewis' Guilt 'Crystal Clear,' Court Is Told as Trial Ends; Goldsborough Will Give Decision Monday, He Says, After Prosecutor Argues That Order to Stop Strike Was Ignored LEWIS TRIAL ENDS; DECISION MONDAY
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
I Remember Mama
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
28,540 days ago
(78 years, 70 days)