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On the date
Thursday, January 6, 1949
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The Headlines
Wide Police Shake-Up Is Begun; Inspector Quits, Deputy Demoted; NEW CHIEF INSPECTOR POLICE SHAKE-UP IS ON WIDE SCALE
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
- Joan of Arc (1412)
- Kahlil Gibran (1883)
- Kim Dae-jung (1924)
- Carl Sandburg (1878)
- Adriano Celentano (1938)
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
28,274 days ago
(77 years, 169 days)