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Saturday, February 5, 1944
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The Headlines
' STATE RIGHTS' BILL FOR SOLDIER VOTING BEATEN IN SENATE; Backing It on 46 to 42 Roll-Call, 23 Republicans Line Up With 19 Democrats COUNTERS HOUSE'S ACTION In Another Trial the Federal Ballot Plan Barely Misses Defeat as Vote Is Tied STATE RIGHTS' BILL BEATEN IN SENATE
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
- William S. Burroughs (1914)
- Robert Peel (1788)
- Robert Hofstadter (1915)
- Adlai Stevenson II (1900)
- Alan Hodgkin (1914)
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
30,071 days ago
(82 years, 141 days)