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Friday, April 29, 1949
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The Headlines
CONFIDENTIAL UNIT OF POLICE SHELVED IN DRASTIC SHIFTS; O'Brien's Order Abolishing Noted Squad Gives Routine Posts to Its 11 Officers FLATH'S MEN TAKE OVER Disbanded Group's Raids Long Made Headlines -- 2 Captains Lose Precinct Commands CONFIDENTIAL UNIT OF POLICE SHELVED
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Careless Hands
Mel Tormé with Sonny Burke and His Orchestra
#1 at the box office
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
You Share a Birthday With
- Hirohito (1901)
- Henri Poincaré (1854)
- Alexander II of Russia (1818)
- Duke Ellington (1899)
- Harold Urey (1893)
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
28,162 days ago
(77 years, 57 days)