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Saturday, June 4, 1949
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The Headlines
TRUMAN RETREATS ON NEW LABOR LAW; He Will Take Best He Can Get, Barkley Tells Senators -Compromise Explained TRUMAN RETREATS ON NEW LABOR LAW
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)
Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra
#1 at the box office
The Stratton Story
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
You Share a Birthday With
- George III (1738)
- Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (1867)
- Karolos Papoulias (1929)
- François Quesnay (1694)
- Heinrich Otto Wieland (1877)
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
28,125 days ago
(77 years, 20 days)