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Friday, December 11, 1942
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The Headlines
WE'LL BE BEST FED, WICKARD TELLS US; WPB CUTS CANNING; New Food Administrator Says Some Items May Be Scarce and Urges Curb on Waste SETS UP 3-UNIT PROGRAM Orders of WPB, Designed to Save Metals for War, Increase Reserves for Armed Forces Wickard Says We Will Be Best Fed in 1943; WPB Reduces Canning, Swells War Rations
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
White Christmas
Unknown Artist
The must-have
Red Ryder BB Gun
You Share a Birthday With
- Naguib Mahfouz (1911)
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918)
- Hector Berlioz (1803)
- Robert Koch (1843)
- Max Born (1882)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
Gi
ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that
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
30,492 days ago
(83 years, 197 days)