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Friday, January 14, 1944
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The Headlines
POLES DEFER REPLY AS CRISIS DEEPENS; Eden Is Reported Stressing Need for Quick Action on Boundary Question
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
- 1949 (1849)
- Albert Schweitzer (1875)
- Yukio Mishima (1925)
- Giulio Andreotti (1919)
- Mehmed VI (1861)
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
30,093 days ago
(82 years, 163 days)