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On the date
Tuesday, July 12, 1949
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The Headlines
WEST AWAITS WORD ON SOVIET ACTIONS; Three Powers Delay Talk of Counter-Moves to Russian Curb on Berlin Traffic
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 JonesNeptune's Daughter
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
You Share a Birthday With
- Pablo Neruda (1904)
- Henry David Thoreau (1817)
- Amedeo Modigliani (1884)
- Buckminster Fuller (1895)
- Richard Simmons (1948)
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
28,087 days ago
(76 years, 347 days)