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Saturday, January 8, 1944
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The Headlines
NEW DRIVE OPENED; 3-Day Offensive Plunges 25 Miles to Encircle Key Ukrainian City VATUTIN STEPS UP GAINS Soviet Armies Drive Toward Escape Lines of 50 Enemy Divisions in Bend NEW DRIVE OPENED BY RUSSIAN ARMIES
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
30,099 days ago
(82 years, 169 days)