From the day
On the date
Sunday, November 13, 1949
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The Headlines
Three-Day Banking Week Leads To Doubts on Saturday Closing; SHORT BANK WEEK AROUSES CRITICISM
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Slipping Around
Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely
#1 at the box office
Jolson Sings Again †
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
You Share a Birthday With
- Augustine of Hippo (354)
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850)
- Edward III (1312)
- Garry Marshall (1934)
- Edward Adelbert Doisy (1893)
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
27,963 days ago
(76 years, 223 days)