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Thursday, November 18, 1948
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The Headlines
AFL LEADERS VOTE TO STAY IN POLITICS; Wide 'Education' Plan, 110,000 Precinct 'Teams' Planned at Cincinnati Convention AFL LEADERS VOTE TO STAY IN POLITICS
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
Julia Misbehaves
The must-have
Scrabble
You Share a Birthday With
- Margaret Atwood (1939)
- Louis Daguerre (1787)
- Carl Maria von Weber (1786)
- Patrick Blackett (1897)
- Mahinda Rajapaksa (1945)
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
28,323 days ago
(77 years, 218 days)