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On the date
Monday, May 17, 1948
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The Headlines
RALLY HELD HERE; ' Salute to Israel' Packs Garden-75,000 Crowd Streets in Rain AID FOR NEW STATE URGED Neumann Predicts U.S. Will Lift Embargo -- Taft Calls for Speedy Assistance RALLY HELD HERE TO SALUTE ISRAEL
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
You Can't Be True, Dear
Ken Griffin with Jerry Wayne
#1 at the box office
The Iron Curtain
The must-have
Scrabble
You Share a Birthday With
- Edward Jenner (1749)
- Henri Barbusse (1873)
- Erik Satie (1866)
- Alfonso XIII (1886)
- Dennis Hopper (1936)
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
28,509 days ago
(78 years, 39 days)