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Saturday, February 19, 1944
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The Headlines
PRESIDENT UPHELD BY HOUSE IN VETO OF SUBSIDIES BAN; Lower Branch Acts Swiftly, Bill Getting 226 to 151, or 26 Short of Two-thirds Vote MESSAGE A PRICE WARNING Plan Would Have 'Disastrous' Results, Roosevelt Asserts -- Wolcott Keeps Up Fight SUBSIDY-BAN VETO IS UPHELD IN HOUSE
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
- Nicolaus Copernicus (1473)
- Svante Arrhenius (1859)
- André Breton (1896)
- Saparmurat Niyazov (1940)
- David Gross (1941)
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
30,058 days ago
(82 years, 128 days)