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Monday, May 10, 1948
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The Headlines
SOUTH KOREA VOTES AS COMMUNISTS TRY TO SABOTAGE POLL; Foes of U.N.-Directed Election Spread Violence -- 2 Killed Attacking Seoul Booth BROADCAST HITS AT HODGE 6,000,000 Expected to Ballot in Spite of Intimidation, Murder, Kidnapping A MODERN TOUCH FOR FIRST GENERAL ELECTION IN KOREAN HISTORY KOREANS IH SOUTH ARE VOTING TODAY
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
- Fred Astaire (1899)
- Heydar Aliyev (1923)
- Gustav Stresemann (1878)
- Karl Barth (1886)
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788)
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
28,515 days ago
(78 years, 45 days)