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Wednesday, May 17, 1933

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The Headlines

NEW ERA SEEN BY BRITISH; Premier Says America Has Cut Moorings to Save Peace. MESSAGE GUIDES HITLER He Has It Before Him as He Pens Today's Speech After Talk With Hindenburg. FRANCE IS DISAPPOINTED Expected Stronger Measures as Consequence of Herriot's Mission to Washington. BRITISH FIND HOPE IN ROOSEVELT PLAN

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Stormy Weather

Harold Arlen

The must-have

Charlotte Clark Mickey Mouse

On This Day

  • Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway.

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Slang

Slang of the decade

General

damefellaswelllousy

Hardboiled

clip jointgriftershamusgunsel

Swing Era

alligatorjitterbugkiller dillerin the groove

Catchphrases of 1933

  • The only thing we have to fear is fear itself

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

33,987 days ago

(93 years, 42 days)