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Saturday, January 1, 1949
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The Headlines
HUDSON TUBE HALTS IN A 4-HOUR STRIKE; Trains to Jersey Stop From 2:50 to 6:50 P. M. as Men Protest Dismissals
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Buttons and Bows
Dinah Shore and her Happy Valley Boys
#1 at the box office
The Paleface
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
Gi
ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that
Bobby Soxer
neatodreamydreamboat
Tech Check
45 RPM Vinyl, Atomic Clock & Crash Test Dummies.
Cost of Living (1940)
Loaf of Bread
$0.08
Gallon of Gas
$0.18
Average Home
$2,938
New Car
$850
Time Elapsed
28,279 days ago
(77 years, 174 days)