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On the date
Wednesday, November 9, 1949
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The Headlines
ADOPTION EXPECTED FOR ALL PROPOSALS; Upstate Opposition on Veteran Preference and Housing Is Making the Vote Close ADOPTION EXPECTED FOR ALL PROPOSALS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
That Lucky Old Sun
Unknown Artist
#1 at the box office
Jolson Sings Again †
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
You Share a Birthday With
- Ivan Turgenev (1818)
- Carl Sagan (1934)
- Muhammad Iqbal (1877)
- Edward VII (1841)
- Imre Kertész (1929)
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
27,967 days ago
(76 years, 227 days)