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Sunday, May 1, 1949
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The Headlines
STEEL GETTING SET TO RESIST PAY RISE; Grace, Giving One Reason, Says Wages Are 100% Above the Level in 1939 OTHERS SEE OUTPUT, CUT Olds Warns Increase in Cost of Employment Will Mean an Advance in Prices
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
"A"—You're Adorable
Perry Como with the Fontane Sisters and Orchestra conducted by Mitchell Ayres
#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
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769)
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852)
- Joseph Addison (1672)
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881)
- Joseph Heller (1923)
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
28,160 days ago
(77 years, 55 days)