Monday, August 22, 1949

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The Headlines

British Need 40% Export Rise To Meet Their Dollar Deficit; Britain Needs 40% Rise in Exports To Meet the Current Dollar Deficit

#1 on Your Hit Parade

You're Breaking My Heart

Vic Damone with Glenn Osser’s Orchestra

#1 at the box office

The must-have

LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)

On This Day

• The Queen Charlotte earthquake is Canada's strongest since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Deng Xiaoping (1904)
• Claude Debussy (1862)
• Ray Bradbury (1920)
• Leni Riefenstahl (1902)
• Pope Leo XII (1760)

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Tech Check

45 RPM Vinyl, Atomic Clock & Crash Test Dummies.

Cost of Living (1940)