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On the date
Tuesday, November 9, 1948
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The Headlines
J. PARNELL THOMAS INDICTED FOR FRAUD IN OFFICE PAYROLL; Representative's Ex-Secretary Also Accused of Conspiring for Employe 'Kickbacks'
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
- Ivan Turgenev (1818)
- Carl Sagan (1934)
- Muhammad Iqbal (1877)
- Edward VII (1841)
- Imre Kertész (1929)
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
28,332 days ago
(77 years, 227 days)