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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

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#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

Catchphrases of 1944

  • Kilroy was here

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)