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Monday, September 27, 1948
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The Headlines
KEEP POWDER DRY, PRESIDENT URGES IN PLEA FOR PEACE; If We Have Bullets Ready We Eventually Will End Wars, He Tells Texas Dinner RAYBURN RALLIES PARTY His Plea for Truman Is Viewed as Forcing Foreign Policy Into Campaign Arena THE PRESIDENT LEAVING CHURCH IN TEXAS KEEP POWDER DRY, PRESIDENT URGES
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
- AD 808 (808)
- Grazia Deledda (1871)
- Louis XIII (1601)
- Martin Ryle (1918)
- Wilford Brimley (1934)
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
28,375 days ago
(77 years, 270 days)