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Saturday, April 16, 1949
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The Headlines
1949 SPENDING MARK FORECAST BY TABER; He Puts House-Approved Funds at $4,200,000,000 Over '48 -- George Urges Slashes '49 SPENDING MARK FORECAST BY TABER
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
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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
28,175 days ago
(77 years, 70 days)