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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

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#1 on Your Hit Parade

Twelfth Street Rag

Pee Wee Hunt and His Orchestra

The must-have

Scrabble

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

gobbledygooksnafufubar

Gi

ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that

Bobby Soxer

neatodreamydreamboat

Catchphrases of 1948

  • Dewey Defeats Truman

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 ExpansionThe 'Golden Age' of capitalism begins.

Time Elapsed

28,375 days ago

(77 years, 270 days)