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Tuesday, February 15, 1944
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The Headlines
$25,000,000 IN BONDS BOUGHT BY STATE; DRIVE ENDS TONIGHT; Emergency Message by Dewey Speeds Legislative Action on Surplus Investment 2 BOROUGHS PASS QUOTAS Bronx and Richmond Go Over the Top -- Over-All Total in City 91.9% of Goal State Buys $25,000,000 in Bonds; Fourth Drive Ends at 12 Tonight
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 assault on Monte Cassino, Italy begins.
Wikipedia →World War II: The Narva Offensive begins.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Galileo Galilei (1564)
- Louis XV (1710)
- Jeremy Bentham (1748)
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861)
- Susan B. Anthony (1820)
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
30,061 days ago
(82 years, 131 days)