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Friday, May 27, 1949
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The Headlines
HOUSE COMPROMISE ON $5,617,470,000 FOR AID IS PASSED; $4,642,470,000 Goes to ERP, With Cut in This Sum Offset by Shorter Spending Time TRUMAN IN PLEA TO CHIEFS He Gains Restoration of Half of Slash Made in Fund for Occupied Area Relief $5,617,470,000 AID PASSED BY HOUSE
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Riders in the Sky
Unknown Artist
#1 at the box office
The Stratton Story
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
You Share a Birthday With
- Ibn Khaldun (1332)
- Henry Kissinger (1923)
- Christopher Lee (1922)
- Rachel Carson (1907)
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894)
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
28,133 days ago
(77 years, 28 days)