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Tuesday, December 28, 1948
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The Headlines
Optimism Rules as Parleys Open To Avert Tugboat Tie-Up Here; OPTIMISM EVIDENT AS TUG TALKS OPEN
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
On This Day
The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 80 kilometres (50 mi) south of Miami.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Woodrow Wilson (1856)
- John von Neumann (1903)
- Stan Lee (1922)
- Maggie Smith (1934)
- Arthur Eddington (1882)
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
28,283 days ago
(77 years, 178 days)