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Thursday, September 16, 1948
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The Headlines
MEDIATOR REPORTS TRUCK PEACE GAINS; Unions Pledge Aid in Unifying Demands -- Agreement Ends Milk Delivery Threat
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
Rachel and the Stranger
The must-have
Scrabble
You Share a Birthday With
- Lee Kuan Yew (1923)
- Lauren Bacall (1924)
- B. B. King (1925)
- Karl Dönitz (1891)
- Henry V of England (1386)
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
28,387 days ago
(77 years, 282 days)