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Thursday, August 26, 1948
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The Headlines
HISS AND CHAMBERS MEET FACE TO FACE; CLASH IN TESTIMONY; Both Stand by Their Stories, and House Body Head Says One Faces Perjury Trial OLD AUTO HAS A BIG ROLE Federal Ex-Aide, Charged With Giving Car to Reds, Denies It, Calls Accuser a Liar HISS, CHAMBERS CLASH AT INQUIRY HISS AND CHAMBERS FACE EACH OTHER AT CONGRESSIONAL HEARING
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Twelfth Street Rag
Pee Wee Hunt and His Orchestra
#1 at the box office
A Date with Judy
The must-have
Scrabble
You Share a Birthday With
- Mother Teresa (1910)
- Antoine Lavoisier (1743)
- Guillaume Apollinaire (1880)
- Julio Cortázar (1914)
- Robert Walpole (1676)
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
28,408 days ago
(77 years, 303 days)