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Thursday, December 22, 1949
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The Headlines
MALENKOV EULOGY OF STALIN STRESSES CHANCES OF PEACE; Soviet Premier's Statements on Coexistence of Capitalism and Communism Recalled
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
- Giacomo Puccini (1858)
- Jean Racine (1639)
- Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887)
- Diocletian (244)
- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876)
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
27,924 days ago
(76 years, 184 days)