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Saturday, October 8, 1949
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The Headlines
BOMB AVAILABILITY SATISFIES M'MAHON; Air Force Can Get at the Atom Weapon Instantly, He Says After Secret Capital Parley BOMB AVAILABILITY SATISFIES M'MAHON
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
That Lucky Old Sun
Frankie Laine with Judd Conlon's Rhythmaires, Harry Geller and His Orchestra, and Carl Fischer
#1 at the box office
Father Was a Fullback
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
You Share a Birthday With
- Sigourney Weaver (1949)
- Marina Tsvetaeva (1892)
- Juan Perón (1895)
- Frank Herbert (1920)
- Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883)
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
27,999 days ago
(76 years, 259 days)