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Saturday, April 15, 1944
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The Headlines
DEWEY CONDEMNS GOVERNMENT BASED ON BUREAUCRACIES; Governor in First-Year Report Compares State's Program to Federal 'Directives' PRAISES WAR BALLOT LAW He Says New York Plan Is Better Than Blank Paper -- Tells the Albany Record DEWEY CRITICIZES RULE BY DIRECTIVES
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You Share a Birthday With
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- Leonhard Euler (1707)
- Nikita Khrushchev (1894)
- Kim Il Sung (1912)
- Émile Durkheim (1858)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
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Bobby Soxer
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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
30,002 days ago
(82 years, 72 days)