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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

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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

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

30,061 days ago

(82 years, 131 days)