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Saturday, March 4, 1939
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The Headlines
PRAYS FOR RULERS; Reads Into Microphone From Altar Set Up in Sistine Chapel HIS HABITS ARE UNCHANGED He Sleeps in Same Bed, Has a Frugal Breakfast and Then Plunges Into Day's Work
Read in The New York Times →The must-have
View-Master
You Share a Birthday With
- Antonio Vivaldi (1678)
- Miriam Makeba (1932)
- Muhammad Ali of Egypt (1769)
- Alpha Condé (1938)
- Prince Henry the Navigator (1394)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
damefellaswelllousy
Hardboiled
clip jointgriftershamusgunsel
Swing Era
alligatorjitterbugkiller dillerin the groove
Tech Check
Television Sets (World's Fair), View-Master & Helicopter (Sikorsky).
Cost of Living (1930)
Loaf of Bread
$0.09
Gallon of Gas
$0.20
Average Home
$3,900
New Car
$640
Time Elapsed
31,870 days ago
(87 years, 115 days)