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Sunday, February 14, 1943
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The Headlines
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK IN REVIEW; War to the Hilt
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
I Had the Craziest Dream
Unknown Artist
The must-have
Slinky
On This Day
World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated.
Wikipedia →World War II: Tunisia Campaign: General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim's Fifth Panzer Army launches a counter-attack against Allied positions in Tunisia.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Babur (1483)
- C. T. R. Wilson (1869)
- Leon Battista Alberti (1404)
- Michael Bloomberg (1942)
- Max Horkheimer (1895)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
Gi
ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that
Bobby Soxer
neatodreamydreamboat
Tech Check
Colossus Computer, Slinky & Aqualung (Scuba).
Cost of Living (1940)
Loaf of Bread
$0.08
Gallon of Gas
$0.18
Average Home
$2,938
New Car
$850
Time Elapsed
30,427 days ago
(83 years, 132 days)