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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

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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

On This Day

  • World War II: The 872-day Siege of Leningrad is lifted.

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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

30,080 days ago

(82 years, 150 days)