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Thursday, February 17, 1944
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The Headlines
ABBEY IS POUNDED; Wreckage of Monastery Hit Again -- Rome Rail Yards Bombed 1,100 SORTIES TO FOE'S 70 Ground Forces Continue Their Relative Lull as German Gain Is Announced ABBEY IS POUNDED AGAIN BY ALLIES
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
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
30,060 days ago
(82 years, 130 days)