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Saturday, September 18, 1948
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The Headlines
HOUSE BODY PLANS TO EXPOSE DETAILS OF ATOMIC SPYING; ' Shocking Chapter' to Be Told in Next Few Days 'in Spite' of the President, It Says CONDON DATA ASKED AGAIN Ferguson Urges Clark to Seek Espionage Indictments in and Out of Government How Reds Spied on Atomic Work Will Be Told, House Body Pledges
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
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
28,384 days ago
(77 years, 279 days)