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Tuesday, January 25, 1944

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The Headlines

SENATE FOES FIGHT COMPROMISE PLAN ON SOLDIER VOTING; Bill to Displace 'State' Program Threatened by Some Southerners and Republicans TAFT HITS STIMSON, KNOX He Alleges Secretaries Seek a 'Fourth Term' -- Sponsors Weigh New Concessions SENATE FOES FIGHT SOLDIER-VOTE BILL

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#1 on Your Hit Parade

My Heart Tells Me (Should I Believe My Heart?)

Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra with Eugenie Baird

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

30,082 days ago

(82 years, 152 days)