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Wednesday, January 5, 1944

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The Headlines

RAIL CITY CAPTURE; Belaya Tserkov Falls to Russians -- Nazi Peril in Dnieper Bend Grows GERMAN SUPPLIES CUT OFF Nevel-Velikiye Luki Route Is Cleared of Foe -- Drive Frees 100 Villages in North RED ARMY PUTS PRESSURE ON ENEMY RAIL CITY CAPTURED IN SOVIET ADVANCE

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#1 on Your Hit Parade

Paper Doll

The Mills Brothers

The must-have

Slinky

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

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Gi

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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

30,102 days ago

(82 years, 172 days)