Wednesday, October 19, 1949

From the day

No memories yet. Add yours if you remember this day.

The Headlines

' Major Expansion' Mapped For Our Atom Bomb Plants; Truman Approves Program That May Cost $300,000,000 -- Congress Acts Swiftly to Cut Spending Curbs on A. E. C. TRUMAN APPROVES ATOMIC EXPANSION

#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

The must-have

LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)

You Share a Birthday With

• Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899)
• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910)
• John le Carré (1931)
• Philip Pullman (1946)
• Marsilio Ficino (1433)

Slang

Tech Check

45 RPM Vinyl, Atomic Clock & Crash Test Dummies.

Cost of Living (1940)