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Sunday, February 20, 1949
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The Headlines
Eisenhower Task Is to Guide Services to '51 Fiscal Budget; Joint Chiefs of Staff, With His Aid, First Will Shape a Balanced Force Without Arbitrary Fund Limits at This Time EISENHOWER TASK AIMS AT '51 BUDGET
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Far Away Places
Unknown Artist
#1 at the box office
Command Decision
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
28,229 days ago
(77 years, 124 days)