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Monday, December 13, 1948

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The Headlines

U. N. ASSEMBLY ENDS ITS PARIS MEETING; BACKS SOUTH KOREA; Three-Month Session Winds Up With a Russian Attack on U. S. and Britain DULLES HAILS 'SUCCESSES' Recognition of Seoul Regime Is Endorsed, 48 to 6, Over Soviet Bloc Opposition ASSEMBLY SESSION IN PARIS ADJOURNS

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#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

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

gobbledygooksnafufubar

Gi

ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that

Bobby Soxer

neatodreamydreamboat

Catchphrases of 1948

  • Dewey Defeats Truman

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

28,298 days ago

(77 years, 193 days)