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Saturday, January 8, 1949
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The Headlines
TRUMAN REGRETFUL; Hails Retiring Secretary in Announcing State Department Shift POLICY ON SOVIET STANDS President Denies Any Conflict With His Cabinet Over the 'Tough' Position Issue MARSHALL QUITS, ACHESON NAMED
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)
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
28,272 days ago
(77 years, 167 days)