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On the date
Thursday, September 1, 1949
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The Headlines
CONGRESS BALKED ON EARLY CLOSING; MUST ACT ON PACTS; Senate Recesses for Six Days but Will Return to Take Up Trade Agreements Fight
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
You're Breaking My Heart
Vic Damone with Glenn Osser's Orchestra
#1 at the box office
White Heat
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
You Share a Birthday With
- Annie Ernaux (1940)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875)
- Roh Moo-hyun (1946)
- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896)
- Francis William Aston (1877)
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
28,036 days ago
(76 years, 296 days)