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Sunday, August 1, 1948
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The Headlines
ROLLBACK'S EFFECT FEARED HARMFUL; Experience Gained in Earlier Attempt Viewed as Showing Plan Is Impractical UPSET NATION'S ECONOMY Rises in Wages and Rail Rates Pointed Out as New Large Factors in Prices ROLLBACK'S EFFECT FEARED HARMFUL
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
My Happiness
Unknown Artist
#1 at the box office
Key Largo
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
28,432 days ago
(77 years, 327 days)