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Sunday, November 7, 1948
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The Headlines
ANALYZING THE MARSHALL PLAN; THE EUROPEAN RECOVERY PROGRAM. By Seymour E. Harris. 309 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: The Harvard University Press. $3.50. Its Genesis, Development and Future -- and a Sober Warning to Optimists
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Buttons and Bows
Dinah Shore and her Happy Valley Boys
#1 at the box office
A Song Is Born
The must-have
Scrabble
You Share a Birthday With
- Marie Curie (1867)
- Albert Camus (1913)
- Leon Trotsky (1879)
- James Cook (1728)
- C. V. Raman (1888)
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
Time Elapsed
28,334 days ago
(77 years, 229 days)