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Friday, January 21, 1944

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The Headlines

TEDDER IN LONDON TO SPEED AIR BLOW; Expected to Resolve Growing Doubt Over Tactical Chiefs -- Eisenhower Visits King TEDDER IN LONDON TO SPEED AIR BLOW

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#1 on Your Hit Parade

Shoo-Shoo Baby

The Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen and His Orchestra

The must-have

Slinky

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

gobbledygooksnafufubar

Gi

ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that

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

30,086 days ago

(82 years, 156 days)