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On the date
Wednesday, February 9, 1949
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The Headlines
SCHUMAN TO INSIST ON BERLIN ACCORD; Declares Agreement There Must Precede Any Big 4 Conference on Peace SCHUMAN TO INSIST ON BERLIN ACCORD
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
Joan of Arc
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
You Share a Birthday With
- William Henry Harrison (1773)
- Thomas Paine (1737)
- J. M. Coetzee (1940)
- Alice Walker (1944)
- Joseph Stiglitz (1943)
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
28,240 days ago
(77 years, 135 days)