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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

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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

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

30,058 days ago

(82 years, 128 days)