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On the date
Tuesday, May 4, 1948
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The Headlines
TORNADO STRIKES TWO TEXAS TOWNS; School Damaged but Pupils Are Safe -- Toll Is at Least 3 Dead and Many Hurt TOPPLED OVER BY THE FORCE OF THE TORNADO IN TEXAS TORNADO STRIKES TWO TEXAS TOWNS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Nature Boy
King Cole with Orchestra conducted by Frank De Vol
#1 at the box office
State of the Union
The must-have
Scrabble
You Share a Birthday With
- Audrey Hepburn (1929)
- Hosni Mubarak (1928)
- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825)
- Amos Oz (1939)
- Kakuei Tanaka (1918)
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
Meanwhile
- Post-WWII Expansion — The 'Golden Age' of capitalism begins.
Time Elapsed
28,521 days ago
(78 years, 51 days)