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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

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#1 on Your Hit Parade

You Can't Be True, Dear

Ken Griffin with Jerry Wayne

The must-have

Scrabble

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

gobbledygooksnafufubar

Gi

ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that

Bobby Soxer

neatodreamydreamboat

Catchphrases of 1948

  • Dewey Defeats Truman

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 ExpansionThe 'Golden Age' of capitalism begins.

Time Elapsed

28,480 days ago

(78 years, 10 days)