On the date

Friday, December 31, 1948

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The Headlines

750 GUNS STOLEN FROM U.S. ARSENAL; Six Men Arraigned in Newark in Alleged Conspiracy to Ship Weapons to Costa Rica

#1 on Your Hit Parade

Dinah Shore and her Happy Valley Boys

#1 at the box office

The must-have

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

gobbledygooksnafufubar

ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that

Bobby Soxer

neatodreamydreamboat

Catchphrases of 1948

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

28,280 days ago

(77 years, 175 days)