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Sunday, November 28, 1948
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The Headlines
PROPOSALS READY ON TRADE CONTROL; Congress Committees to Hear Plea of Merchant Exporters for Half of OIT Allocations
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
When My Baby Smiles at Me
The must-have
Scrabble
You Share a Birthday With
- Friedrich Engels (1820)
- William Blake (1757)
- Stefan Zweig (1881)
- Alexander Blok (1880)
- Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908)
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
28,314 days ago
(77 years, 209 days)