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Wednesday, September 1, 1948
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The Headlines
STEVENS IS CALLED COMMUNIST 'BOSS' AT ALIEN HEARING; Ex-Members of Party Assert He Headed Plans for Revolt Against U.S. Government ONCE MOSCOW DELEGATE Native of Hungary Here 25 Years Says He Is Lawyer and Will Fight Deportation PRINCIPALS AT COMMUNIST HEARING STEVENS IS CALLED COMMUNIST 'BOSS'
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
You Call Everybody Darlin'
Unknown Artist
#1 at the box office
A Date with Judy
The must-have
Scrabble
You Share a Birthday With
- Annie Ernaux (1940)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875)
- Roh Moo-hyun (1946)
- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896)
- Francis William Aston (1877)
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
28,401 days ago
(77 years, 296 days)