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Friday, January 7, 1949
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The Headlines
Bullitt Asks U. S. Direction Of Chiang Forces in China; He Also Presses $800,000,000 Aid Program to Keep South China From Reds -- Revival of 'Flying Tiger' Squadron Is Urged BULLITT BIDS U. S. MAP CHIANG FIGHT
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
- Millard Fillmore (1800)
- Pope Gregory XIII (1502)
- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858)
- Joseph Bonaparte (1768)
- Bernadette Soubirous (1844)
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)