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Saturday, December 17, 1949
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The Headlines
PROTESTANTS GET UNITY AGREEMENT; Representatives of 20 Million Agree Times Require Sects to 'Make Common Cause' PROTESTANTS GET UNITY AGREEMENT
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Mule Train
Frankie Laine and the Muleskinners
#1 at the box office
The Great Lover
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
You Share a Birthday With
- Pope Francis (1936)
- Humphry Davy (1778)
- Muhammadu Buhari (1942)
- Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu (1948)
- Willard Libby (1908)
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
27,929 days ago
(76 years, 189 days)