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Tuesday, January 4, 1949
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The Headlines
KEY VOTE 275-142; Authority to Pigeonhole House Bills Is Ended After 10 Years MANY TESTS DEFERRED Administration Balks Moves Aimed at Inquiry Set-Ups -- Rayburn Is Speaker TRUMAN AIDES WIN HOUSE RULES CURBS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
All I Want for Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth)
Spike Jones and his City Slickers with George Rock
#1 at the box office
The Paleface
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
You Share a Birthday With
- Gao Xingjian (1940)
- Louis Braille (1809)
- Jacob Grimm (1785)
- Brian Josephson (1940)
- Ali al-Sajjad (659)
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
28,276 days ago
(77 years, 171 days)