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Friday, May 12, 1933
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The Headlines
NAVY SHORE BASES CUT BY $18,000,000; Swanson Specifies Sharp Cur- tailment to Save a Third of Promised $53,000,000. YARD HERE UNAFFECTED But Status of Lakehurst Air- port Is Reduced and Radio Stations Are to Be Closed. NAVY SHORE BASES CUT BY $18,000,000
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The must-have
Charlotte Clark Mickey Mouse
On This Day
The Agricultural Adjustment Act, which restricts agricultural production through government purchase of livestock for slaughter and paying subsidies to farmers when they remove land from planting, is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Wikipedia →President Roosevelt signs legislation creating the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, the predecessor of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Florence Nightingale (1820)
- Katharine Hepburn (1907)
- Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895)
- Dorothy Hodgkin (1910)
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
damefellaswelllousy
Hardboiled
clip jointgriftershamusgunsel
Swing Era
alligatorjitterbugkiller dillerin the groove
Tech Check
FM Radio, Drive-In Theater & Polyethylene.
Cost of Living (1930)
Loaf of Bread
$0.09
Gallon of Gas
$0.20
Average Home
$3,900
New Car
$640
Time Elapsed
33,992 days ago
(93 years, 47 days)