From the day
On the date
Sunday, May 23, 1948
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The Headlines
Bevin, Douglas Confer on End Of Divergencies on Palestine; BEVIN AND DOUGLAS CONFER ON DISCORD
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
On This Day
Thomas C. Wasson, the US Consul-General, is assassinated in Jerusalem, Israel.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Carl Linnaeus (1707)
- Pär Lagerkvist (1891)
- John Bardeen (1908)
- Hans Frank (1900)
- Otto Lilienthal (1848)
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
28,502 days ago
(78 years, 32 days)