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Saturday, December 18, 1948
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The Headlines
40-HOUR RAIL WEEK AT SAME PAY AS 48 PROPOSED BY BOARD; Presidential Panel Suggests Retroactive Wage Rise of 7c for Million Non-Operators CHANGE SET SEPT. 1, 1949 Union Heads Are Disappointed, Schedule Chicago Meeting to Consider Proposals Board Proposes a 40-Hour Week At Pay of 48 for Railway Workers
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
The Paleface
The must-have
Scrabble
You Share a Birthday With
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Steven Spielberg (1946)
- Willy Brandt (1913)
- J. J. Thomson (1856)
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (1863)
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
28,293 days ago
(77 years, 188 days)