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Saturday, January 1, 1944
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The Headlines
GAY CROWDS GREET THE NEW YEAR HERE IN VICTORY SPIRIT; Broadway Echoes to Song and Laughter of Greatest Revel Since Pearl Harbor BRIGHT LIGHTS ADD TO JOY Many Greet 1944 in Churches, Where Day of Prayer Asked by President Is Begun USHERING IN THE NEW YEAR AT TIMES SQUARE CROWDS GREET 1944 IN VICTORY SPIRIT
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Paper Doll
The Mills Brothers
The must-have
Slinky
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
Gi
ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that
Bobby Soxer
neatodreamydreamboat
Tech Check
Harvard Mark I Computer, Kidney Dialysis Machine & Synthesized Quinine.
Cost of Living (1940)
Loaf of Bread
$0.08
Gallon of Gas
$0.18
Average Home
$2,938
New Car
$850
Time Elapsed
30,106 days ago
(82 years, 176 days)