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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

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#1 on Your Hit Parade

White Christmas

Unknown Artist

The must-have

Red Ryder BB Gun

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

30,492 days ago

(83 years, 197 days)