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On the date
Monday, November 21, 1949
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The Headlines
EUROPEAN CARTELS REVIVED TO BLOCK FREEING OF TRADE; Marshall Plan Held Imperiled by Deals of Industrialists Across the Frontiers
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Mule Train
Frankie Laine and the Muleskinners
#1 at the box office
That Forsyte Woman
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
You Share a Birthday With
- Voltaire (1694)
- Pope Benedict XV (1854)
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1903)
- René Magritte (1898)
- Goldie Hawn (1945)
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
27,955 days ago
(76 years, 215 days)