Sunday, June 5, 1949

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The Headlines

ASSESSMENT CUT BY FDIC AWAITED; U. S. Agency, Banking Groups Seen Ready to Propose Plan After Long Study JONES LETTER A FACTOR Former Head of RFC Had Asked Congress to Suspend the Payments Entirely ASSESSMENT CUT BY FDIC AWARDED

#1 on Your Hit Parade

Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)

Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra

#1 at the box office

The must-have

LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)

On This Day

• Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the first female member of Thailand's Parliament.

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You Share a Birthday With

• John Maynard Keynes (1883)
• Federico García Lorca (1898)
• Dennis Gabor (1900)
• Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (1942)
• Pancho Villa (1878)

Slang

Tech Check

45 RPM Vinyl, Atomic Clock & Crash Test Dummies.

Cost of Living (1940)