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Thursday, April 29, 1948
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The Headlines
DRAFT-UMT TRUCE SAID TO BE BACKED IN AIMS BY TRUMAN; Word Comes After He Holds Conference With Forrestal, Royall and Bradley CONGRESS REMAINS SPLIT Senate Committee Veers to Plan, but Leaders of House Group Push UMT Ban TRUMAN REPORTED FOR DRAFT TRUCE
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
State of the Union
The must-have
Scrabble
You Share a Birthday With
- Hirohito (1901)
- Henri Poincaré (1854)
- Alexander II of Russia (1818)
- Duke Ellington (1899)
- Harold Urey (1893)
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
28,526 days ago
(78 years, 56 days)