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Sunday, April 16, 1944
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The Headlines
Record 85,000 See Charlton Upset Chelsea In Soccer Final; Eisenhower Presents Cup; CHARLTON VICTOR AS 85,000 WATCH
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
It's Love-Love-Love
Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians with Skip Nelson and the Lombardo Trio
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
30,000 days ago
(82 years, 70 days)