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Thursday, November 17, 1949
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The Headlines
ASSEMBLY ADOPTS ECONOMIC AID PLAN IN U.N. UNANIMOUSLY; Four Resolutions Are Accepted to Give Technical Help to Underdeveloped Lands ROMULO PRAISES ACTION Agreement Enables World Body to Mesh Projects With U. S. Proffer Through Point 4 ASSEMBLY ADOPTS ECONOMIC AID PLAN
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Slipping Around
Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely
#1 at the box office
That Forsyte Woman
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
You Share a Birthday With
- Martin Scorsese (1942)
- Eugene Wigner (1902)
- Louis XVIII (1755)
- Danny DeVito (1944)
- Nicolas Appert (1749)
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
27,959 days ago
(76 years, 219 days)