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Tuesday, October 11, 1949
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The Headlines
Farm Tool Union Heads Vote To Defy CIO, Join UE Leftists; Officers of Equipment Workers Reported in Secret Pact With Electrical Group -- Drive Against Murray Is Stressed Merger of Leftist Farm Union, UE Voted by Leaders to Fight Murray
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
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884)
- Amitabh Bachchan (1942)
- François Mauriac (1885)
- Bobby Charlton (1937)
- Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (1758)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
Gi
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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
27,996 days ago
(76 years, 256 days)