Tuesday, June 14, 1949

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The Headlines

HIGH COURT FORBIDS OIL COMPANY PACTS THAT BIND DEALERS; Ruling, 5-4, Declares Illegal Agreements to Buy Fuel Only From Standard of California DOUGLAS DISSENT BITTER He Asserts Fellow 'Liberals' Strike at Independents With 'Formula' for 'Empires' HIGH COURT FORBIDS OIL COMPANY PACTS

#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

• Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rides a V-2 rocket to an altitude of 134 km (83 mi), thereby becoming the first mammal and first monkey in space.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Donald Trump (1946)
• Che Guevara (1928)
• Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811)
• Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736)
• Karl Landsteiner (1868)

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Tech Check

45 RPM Vinyl, Atomic Clock & Crash Test Dummies.

Cost of Living (1940)