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Friday, December 3, 1948
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The Headlines
CITY BOARD ADOPTS A CAPITAL BUDGET FOR $336,909,773; Biggest Estimated Outlay Now Goes to Council -- Hearing Set for Dec. 13 SEVERAL CHANGES MADE $7,630,650 Projects Are Added and Less Urgent Ones Are Dropped in Final Draft CITY BOARD ADOPTS CAPITAL BUDGET
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Buttons and Bows
Dinah Shore and her Happy Valley Boys
#1 at the box office
The Three Musketeers
The must-have
Scrabble
You Share a Birthday With
- Joseph Conrad (1857)
- Ozzy Osbourne (1948)
- Jean-Luc Godard (1930)
- France Prešeren (1800)
- Rajendra Prasad (1884)
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
28,308 days ago
(77 years, 203 days)