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Thursday, June 29, 1939
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The Headlines
NAZIS POURING INTO DANZIG FROM REICH TO JOIN 'ARMY'; YOUNG POLES ALSO ACTIVE; 3,000 GERMANS GO City's New Free Corps Reported Drilling With Machine Guns BARRACKS CLEARED FOR IT Polish Shipyard Engineers Are Expelled--Himmler Said to Be at the Scene Danzig Police Reinforced Denial Issued in Berlin Reich Nazis Pour Into Danzig to Join 'Army'; Young Poles in Free City Also Preparing London Hears of Moves French Concern Grows Slovak Roads Are Pushed
Read in The New York Times →The must-have
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You Share a Birthday With
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900)
- Giorgio Napolitano (1925)
- Giacomo Leopardi (1798)
- Murad I (1326)
- Oriana Fallaci (1929)
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
31,753 days ago
(86 years, 363 days)