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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

The must-have

LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

gobbledygooksnafufubar

Gi

ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that

Bobby Soxer

neatodreamydreamboat

Catchphrases of 1949

  • Big Brother is watching you

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)