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Monday, January 17, 1949
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The Headlines
CLOSE GUARD KEPT ON INDIES LEADERS; U. N. Body Sees Banka Group, Reports on Restrictions -- Dutch Promise Change IN INDONESIA, WHERE NEW REPUBLIC IS TRYING TO OVERCOME ILLITERACY AND POVERTY CLOSE GUARD KEPT ON INDIES LEADERS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
A Little Bird Told Me
Evelyn Knight and the Stardusters
#1 at the box office
Words and Music
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
You Share a Birthday With
- Benjamin Franklin (1706)
- Muhammad Ali (1942)
- David Lloyd George (1863)
- Anne Brontë (1820)
- Al Capone (1899)
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
28,263 days ago
(77 years, 158 days)