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Thursday, August 4, 1949
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The Headlines
'Blank Check' for Arms Aid Asked With Austria in View; Bill's Supporters Say That Fear of Seizure of the Nation by Reds After All Troops Leave Was Reason for Provision 'BLANK CHECK' AID AIMED AT AUSTRIA
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
In the Good Old Summertime
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
You Share a Birthday With
- Louis Armstrong (1901)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792)
- Knut Hamsun (1859)
- Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (1900)
- William Rowan Hamilton (1805)
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
28,064 days ago
(76 years, 324 days)