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On the date
Saturday, January 22, 1949
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The Headlines
TRUMAN SAYS JOB IS TO ENACT PLANKS; He Tells 1,500 Party Aides His Messages Prove Platform Is No Scrap of Paper
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)
You Share a Birthday With
- Lord Byron (1788)
- Francis Bacon (1561)
- Sergei Eisenstein (1898)
- Antonio Gramsci (1891)
- August Strindberg (1849)
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
28,259 days ago
(77 years, 154 days)