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Friday, August 27, 1948
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The Headlines
SOVIET GIVES PLAN TO SETTLE DISPUTE ON BERLIN MARKS; Stalin Offer to Three Envoys Called Hopeful but Not Entirely Satisfactory NEW KREMLIN TALK SEEN U.S., Britain and France Are Said to Seek Guarantees of Rights in German City Soviet Offer to Settle Dispute Over Berlin Currency Revealed
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
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
28,406 days ago
(77 years, 301 days)