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Friday, April 25, 1941
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The Headlines
HOLD-UP IN N.Y.A.C. BALKED BY WOMAN; GUNMAN ENDS LIFE; Policeman Is Shot Fighting 3 Thugs Who Seek to Rob Bookmaker Erickson CHAMBERMAID FOILS PLOT Refuses to Let Invaders Into Gambler's Suite -- Beaten but Shrieks Alarm FIGURES IN ATTEMPTED HOLD-UP AT N.Y.A.C. HOLD-UP IN N.Y.A.C. BALKED BY WOMAN
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy)
Unknown Artist
The must-have
Red Ryder BB Gun
You Share a Birthday With
- Al Pacino (1940)
- Guglielmo Marconi (1874)
- Oliver Cromwell (1599)
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900)
- Ella Fitzgerald (1917)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
Gi
ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that
Bobby Soxer
neatodreamydreamboat
Tech Check
Aerosol Spray Cans, Z3 Computer & Dacron.
Cost of Living (1940)
Loaf of Bread
$0.08
Gallon of Gas
$0.18
Average Home
$2,938
New Car
$850
Time Elapsed
31,087 days ago
(85 years, 62 days)