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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
Read in The New York Times →#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
You Share a Birthday With
- Virginia Woolf (1882)
- Robert Burns (1759)
- Vladimir Vysotsky (1938)
- Robert Boyle (1627)
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874)
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
30,082 days ago
(82 years, 152 days)