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Sunday, January 9, 1944
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The Headlines
CONSCRIPTION PLEA BY PRESIDENT NEAR, SAYS SERVICE PAPER; Army and Navy Journal Expects Message Will Urge Passage of a National Law STRIKE PERIL AS A FACTOR Draft Heads Will Deny Most Occupational Deferments in 18-21 Age Group CONSCRIPTION PLEA BY PRESIDENT SEEN
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Shoo-Shoo Baby
The Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen and His Orchestra
The must-have
Slinky
You Share a Birthday With
- Richard Nixon (1913)
- Simone de Beauvoir (1908)
- AD 727 (727)
- Karel Čapek (1890)
- Joan Baez (1941)
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
30,098 days ago
(82 years, 168 days)