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Monday, February 7, 1944

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The Headlines

WILLKIE, STARTING AN 'ALL-OUT' DRIVE, TO FILE IN NEBRASKA; He Will Enter Preferential Primary in Further Move to Show Midwest Support NOT TO PICK FULL SLATE Will Avoid General Contest Against Delegate Groups of Stassen and Griswold WILLKIE STARTING AN 'ALL-OUT' DRIVE

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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: In Anzio, Italy, German forces launch a counteroffensive during the Allied Operation Shingle.

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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

30,069 days ago

(82 years, 139 days)