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Friday, February 18, 1944
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The Headlines
9 JAPANESE SHIPS IN CONVOY SMASHED; Destroyer, 3 Gunboats and 5 Cargo Vessels Bagged -- 51 Enemy Planes Wrecked 9 JAPANESE SHIPS IN CONVOY SMASHED
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
- Toni Morrison (1931)
- Alessandro Volta (1745)
- Ramakrishna (1836)
- Mary I of England (1516)
- Yoko Ono (1933)
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
30,059 days ago
(82 years, 129 days)