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Monday, July 25, 1949
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The Headlines
CITY'S RELIEF LOAD UP FOR 7TH MONTH; Family Cases Showing Larger Proportion -- $12,608,191 Cost Is Listed for June CITY'S RELIEF LOAD UP FOR 7TH MONTH
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Some Enchanted Evening
Perry Como with Orchestra conducted by Mitchell Ayres
#1 at the box office
Any Number Can Play
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
You Share a Birthday With
- Elias Canetti (1905)
- Rosalind Franklin (1920)
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1922)
- Gavrilo Princip (1894)
- Arthur Balfour (1848)
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
28,074 days ago
(76 years, 334 days)