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Wednesday, December 1, 1948
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The Headlines
DRAFT IN JANUARY FOR ARMY HALVED; Call Is 10,000, With February's Set at 5,000 -- President's Budget Ceiling Cited
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
- Georgy Zhukov (1896)
- Nikolai Lobachevsky (1792)
- Hasan ibn Ali (624)
- Bette Midler (1945)
- Anna Komnene (1083)
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
28,311 days ago
(77 years, 206 days)