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Saturday, December 25, 1948
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The Headlines
Nicaragua and Costa Rica Told to Cease Hostile Acts; Resolution of Council of American States Also Calls for Action Against Invading Caribbean Legion by San Jose TWO LATIN NATIONS TOLD TO SHUN WAR
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
All I Want for Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth)
Spike Jones and his City Slickers with George Rock
#1 at the box office
The Paleface
The must-have
Scrabble
You Share a Birthday With
- Isaac Newton (1642)
- Anwar Sadat (1918)
- Humphrey Bogart (1899)
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876)
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924)
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
28,286 days ago
(77 years, 181 days)