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Thursday, June 23, 1949
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The Headlines
DULLES SEES SOVIET FACING INNER FIGHT WITH PURGES AHEAD; Holds There Is Growing Revolt in Satellite States Against Intolerance of Kremlin NOTES TACTICS IN PARIS Believes Problem of Moscow Now Is Not to Get More but to Keep What It Has DULLES SEES SOVIET FACING INNER FIGHT
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
Sorrowful Jones
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
You Share a Birthday With
- Alan Turing (1912)
- Anna Akhmatova (1889)
- Edward VIII (1894)
- Martti Ahtisaari (1937)
- Oda Nobunaga (1534)
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
28,106 days ago
(77 years, 1 days)