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Thursday, March 19, 1942
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The Headlines
BRITISH FIGHT DRIVE; Forward Units Engage in Retiring Action on Road to Toungoo AMERICAN FLIERS AID Bomb Foe Along Sittang, Smash 15 Planes on Moulmein Fields
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Moonlight Cocktail
Unknown Artist
The must-have
Red Ryder BB Gun
You Share a Birthday With
- David Livingstone (1813)
- Adolf Eichmann (1906)
- Philip Roth (1933)
- Albert Speer (1905)
- Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
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Gi
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Bobby Soxer
neatodreamydreamboat
Tech Check
V-2 Rocket, Bazooka & Napalm.
Cost of Living (1940)
Loaf of Bread
$0.08
Gallon of Gas
$0.18
Average Home
$2,938
New Car
$850
Time Elapsed
30,759 days ago
(84 years, 99 days)