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On the date
Sunday, March 19, 1944
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The Headlines
Rubber Head Warns on Draft; WAR CHIEFS AGREE TO DEFER 40,000
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Mairzy Doats
The Merry Macs
The must-have
Slinky
On This Day
World War II: The German army occupies Hungary.
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You Share a Birthday With
- David Livingstone (1813)
- Adolf Eichmann (1906)
- Philip Roth (1933)
- Mario Monti (1943)
- Albert Speer (1905)
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
30,028 days ago
(82 years, 98 days)