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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
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
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Bobby Soxer
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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)