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Monday, November 15, 1943
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The Headlines
NAZI CHUTISTS WIN LEROS STRONGHOLD; Enemy Seizes Narrow Waist of Island, Separating Two British Defense Bodies
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Paper Doll
Unknown Artist
The must-have
Slinky
On This Day
The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps".
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You Share a Birthday With
- Gerhart Hauptmann (1862)
- William Herschel (1738)
- Erwin Rommel (1891)
- Mahmoud Abbas (1935)
- Georgia O'Keeffe (1887)
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
30,153 days ago
(82 years, 223 days)