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Saturday, May 9, 1942

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The Headlines

British Optimistic; UNITED NATIONS BOLSTER THEIR POSITION IN INDIAN OCEAN CEYLON REINFORCED WITH MADAGASCAR

Read in The New York Times →

#1 on Your Hit Parade

Tangerine

Unknown Artist

The must-have

Red Ryder BB Gun

On This Day

  • The Holocaust in Ukraine: The SS executes 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast. The Zoludek Ghetto (in Belarus) is destroyed and all its inhabitants executed or deported.

    Wikipedia →

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

gobbledygooksnafufubar

Gi

ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that

Bobby Soxer

neatodreamydreamboat

Catchphrases of 1942

  • Here's looking at you, kid

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

30,708 days ago

(84 years, 48 days)