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Friday, October 21, 1949
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The Headlines
STRIKE 'BREAK' HINT SEEN AS MEDIATORS SHAPE STEEL PLAN; Talks 'Certainly Not Hopeless,' Says Ching as He Plans Another Parley Today PRESIDENT BARS SEIZURES Effect of Coal Tie-Up Widens as New York Central Cuts Off 89 Steam Trains BREAK' IS HINTED IN STEEL STRIKE
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
Jolson Sings Again †
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
You Share a Birthday With
- Alfred Nobel (1833)
- Benjamin Netanyahu (1949)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772)
- Ursula K. Le Guin (1929)
- Alphonse de Lamartine (1790)
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
27,986 days ago
(76 years, 246 days)