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On the date
Saturday, January 15, 1949
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The Headlines
STATE POWER BILL, GAINING SUPPORT, BARS COMPETITION; Move to Implement Governor's St. Lawrence Project Said to Protect Utilities
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Buttons and Bows
Dinah Shore and her Happy Valley Boys
#1 at the box office
Words and Music
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
On This Day
Chinese Civil War: The Communist forces take over Tianjin from the Nationalist government.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929)
- Molière (1622)
- Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918)
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809)
- Sofya Kovalevskaya (1850)
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
28,265 days ago
(77 years, 160 days)