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Wednesday, May 19, 1948
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The Headlines
ANTI-LYNCHING BILL FADES IN CONGRESS; Republican Proponents Faced With Choice of Softening It or Risking Likely Defeat ANTI-LYNCHING BILL FADES IN CONGRESS
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
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You Share a Birthday With
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881)
- Ho Chi Minh (1890)
- Malcolm X (1925)
- Pol Pot (1925)
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762)
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
28,506 days ago
(78 years, 36 days)