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Thursday, May 13, 1948
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The Headlines
House Votes to Fine and Jail Cabinet Chiefs Refusing Data; HOUSE ACTS TO GET DATA FROM CABINET
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
The Iron Curtain
The must-have
Scrabble
On This Day
Arab–Israeli War: The Kfar Etzion massacre occurs, a day prior to the Israeli Declaration of Independence.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Pope Pius IX (1792)
- Alphonse Daudet (1840)
- Maria Theresa (1717)
- Ronald Ross (1857)
- Georges Braque (1882)
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
28,512 days ago
(78 years, 42 days)