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Friday, September 10, 1948
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The Headlines
BIG AFL UNION GIVES SUPPORT TO DEWEY; Building Service Workers Say Times Require Strong Leader -- Praise His Labor Views DEWEY MEETS WITH LABOR OFFICIALS IN ALBANY BIG AFL UNION GIVES SUPPORT TO DEWEY
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
- Arthur Compton (1892)
- Karl Lagerfeld (1933)
- Pope Julius III (1487)
- Charles Sanders Peirce (1839)
- Georges Bataille (1897)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
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Gi
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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
28,392 days ago
(77 years, 287 days)