April 30, 1950
Gas cost $0.27 a gallon in the spring of 1950, and the Dow Jones stood at 235 — a tense standoff over the status of Trieste kept Western and Soviet diplomats at odds, with Moscow formally demanding the withdrawal of foreign troops from the contested territory. On the entertainment front, the animated film "Cinderella" was drawing families to theaters across the country, and Eileen Barton's "If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake" was the song Americans couldn't get off the radio. In sports, the Minneapolis Lakers defeated the Syracuse Nationals to claim the NBA championship, and in New York City, the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel opened to traffic on May 25, connecting Brooklyn and lower Manhattan through more than a mile of roadway beneath the harbor.
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Magazine Covers — April 30, 1950
NY Times Headlines — Week of April 30, 1950
Moscow Unveils New Type Of Jet; Stages Biggest Demonstration Of Soviet Air Might Ever To Pass Over Red Square
President Opens 89 Loyalty Files To Senate Inquiry; He Agrees To Release Records Of State Department On Some Accused By Mccarthy F.B.I. Data Held Back Senator Asserts New Witness Says Russia Received Atomic Secrets Before Hiroshima Mccarthy Widens Charges Tydings Assails "Surmises" President Yields On Loyalty Files Senator Briefs Testimony Espionage Operation So Great" Compelled" To Tell The People Tydings Cites Truman Attitude
$3,122,450,000 Voted By Senate For Foreign Aid, Point Four; E.R.P. Fund Is Cut $250,000,000; Higher Slash Fails Economy Forces Falter After Nearly Upsetting Administration Aims Point Four Wins By 37-36 Appeal By Taft Proves Futile --Korea, Non-Soviet China And Arabs Will Benefit Shelving Of Point Four Balked Cut Of Billion Is Beaten Senate Votes $3,122,450,000 For Foreign Aid And Point Four Estimates Being Restudied Two Kem Proposals Beaten Labeling Change Rejected
U.S. Says Soviet Harms Peace By Stand On Baltic Incident; New Note Charges Moscow Deliberately Ignores Its International Obligations And Avoids Facts In Plane Attack U.S. Says Moscow Impedes Peace Aim Charges Soviet Ignores Facts
World Events — April 1950
Time Person of the Year — 1950
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Billboard Charts — April 30, 1950
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Box Office & Oscar Winners — April 30, 1950
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Sports Champions — April 30, 1950
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