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Wednesday, July 6, 1949
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The Headlines
HOFFMAN ACCEPTS EUROPEAN PROJECT ON TRADE PAYMENTS; ECA Chief Backs Compromise Plan That Is Short of Competitive Principle SENATE GROUP HEARS HIM Snyder's Talks With Cripps in London This Week Crucial, Paris Group Believes HOFFMAN ACCEPTS PLAN ON PAYMENTS
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
Neptune's DaughterSorrowful Jones
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
You Share a Birthday With
- George W. Bush (1946)
- Frida Kahlo (1907)
- 14th Dalai Lama (1935)
- Sylvester Stallone (1946)
- Nursultan Nazarbayev (1940)
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
28,093 days ago
(76 years, 353 days)