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Thursday, January 27, 1944
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The Headlines
WLB USURPS POWER, SAYS HOUSE GROUP; ASKS RESTRICTIONS; Smith Committee Calls Board Menace to Enterprise and Right of Judicial Review HITS 'UNION MAINTENANCE' Policy Is Declared a Spur to Labor Strife -- Minority and Davis Assail Report WLB USURPS POWER, SAYS HOUSE GROUP
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
On This Day
World War II: The 872-day Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756)
- Lewis Carroll (1832)
- Wilhelm II (1859)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775)
- Abbas the Great (1571)
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
30,080 days ago
(82 years, 150 days)