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Friday, November 11, 1949
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The Headlines
VISHINSKY ASSERTS SOVIET USES ATOM FOR PEACEFUL WORK; He Says Mountains Are Razed, Deserts Irrigated and New Areas Opened by Energy DENIES STORING OF BOMBS Tells U. N. Russia Would Have Enough if War Came and Rejects Inspection Plan Vishinsky Says Soviet Uses Atom For Peaceful Work in Its Economy
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)
On This Day
The People's Liberation Army Air Force is founded.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821)
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922)
- Paracelsus (1493)
- Daniel Ortega (1945)
- George S. Patton (1885)
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
27,965 days ago
(76 years, 225 days)