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Wednesday, March 23, 1949
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The Headlines
HOUSE GROUP VOTES FOR ERP EXTENSION; Cuts Requests $200,000,000, but Adds $300,000,000 to Back Private Investing
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Cruising Down the River
Russ Morgan and His Orchestra with the Skylarks
#1 at the box office
Mother Is a Freshman
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
28,198 days ago
(77 years, 93 days)