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On the date
Sunday, February 20, 1944
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The Headlines
BARUCH PLAN STIRS CONGRESS DEMAND TO RULE TRANSITION; George Leads Drive Against Giving 'Economic Destiny' of Country to Executive
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
30,057 days ago
(82 years, 127 days)