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Friday, January 21, 1949
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The Headlines
Captain Harry, Not Mr. President, Starts Day of Days With Battery D; Views of the Inaugural Ceremonies at the Capitol as Truman and Barkley Took Office CAP'N HARRY, IT IS, NOT MR. PRESIDENT
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
The Snake Pit
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
28,260 days ago
(77 years, 155 days)