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Monday, May 24, 1948
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The Headlines
TOUR OF 9 'DIVES' STIRS KINGS JUDGE; Leibowitz Tells Liquor Board Conditions Are Deplorable -- Prosecutor Less Alarmed TOUR OF 9 'DIVES' STIRS KINGS JUDGE
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
Arab–Israeli War: Egypt captures the Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai, but the five-day effort gives Israeli forces time to prepare enough to stop the Egyptian advance a week later.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Bob Dylan (1941)
- Queen Victoria (1819)
- Joseph Brodsky (1940)
- Mikhail Sholokhov (1905)
- Jean-Paul Marat (1743)
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
28,501 days ago
(78 years, 31 days)