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Monday, January 24, 1949
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The Headlines
CONSERVATIVES WIN JAPANESE ELECTION; DIET MAJORITY SEEN; Ultra-Conservatives of Former Premier Yoshida Held Sure to Form Government COMMUNISTS BOOST VOTE 26 Seats for Them Indicated -- Socialists Show Losses to Reds in the Big Cities JAPAN'S ELECTIONS WON BY RIGHTISTS
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
- Frederick the Great (1712)
- Joachim Gauck (1940)
- Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais (1732)
- E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776)
- Edith Wharton (1862)
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
28,256 days ago
(77 years, 151 days)