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Tuesday, April 18, 1944
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The Headlines
New Chemical Magic Transmutes Soft Woods Into Best of Timber; New Chemical Magic Transmutes Soft Woods Into Best of Timber
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
You Share a Birthday With
- David Ricardo (1772)
- Michael D. Higgins (1941)
- Samuel P. Huntington (1927)
- Lucrezia Borgia (1480)
- Ahmed I (1590)
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
29,998 days ago
(82 years, 68 days)