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Friday, December 30, 1949
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The Headlines
HUNGARIANS SEIZE FOREIGN COMPANIES IN SWEEPING MOVE; Nationalization Decree Affects All Trade and Industry Still Held in Private Hands U. S. HOLDINGS ARE TAKEN Washington May Ban Travel to Czechoslovakia and Poland to Protect Citizens HUNGARIANS SEIZE FOREIGN COMPANIES
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
- Rudyard Kipling (1865)
- Tu Youyou (1930)
- Hideki Tojo (1884)
- Patti Smith (1946)
- Omar Bongo (1935)
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
27,917 days ago
(76 years, 177 days)