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Wednesday, December 29, 1948
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The Headlines
U.S. TAKES DIVISION FROM SOUTH KOREA; Seventh Is Moving Into Japan to Replace Airborne Unit -Strength in East Cut U.S. TAKES DIVISION FROM SOUTH KOREA
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
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)