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Saturday, April 17, 1948
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The Headlines
16 COUNTRIES SIGN EUROPE AID PACT, SET UP MACHINERY; Spaak Is Chosen as Chairman as Bevin Withdraws -- Paris Will Be Headquarters WEST GERMANY GETS ROLE Brussels Accord Powers Will Meet Today to Integrate Plan With Defense Treaty PERMANENT GROUP ON U.S. AID FORMED
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
You Share a Birthday With
- Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916)
- J. P. Morgan (1837)
- William Holden (1918)
- Thornton Wilder (1897)
- Alain Poher (1909)
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
28,539 days ago
(78 years, 69 days)