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Monday, June 14, 1948
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The Headlines
PRESIDENT TO TALK ALL THE WAY HOME; SAYS U. N. WILL WIN; Obviously Pleased With Result of His Tour to Coast, He Will Return by Train, Not by Air CHARTER HELD WORLD AID He Calls All Nations to Settle Their Differences Just as the States of U. S. End Theirs PRESIDENT TO TALK ALL THE WAY HOME
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
You Can't Be True, Dear
Ken Griffin with Jerry Wayne
#1 at the box office
Homecoming
The must-have
Scrabble
You Share a Birthday With
- Donald Trump (1946)
- Che Guevara (1928)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811)
- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736)
- Karl Landsteiner (1868)
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
28,480 days ago
(78 years, 10 days)