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Wednesday, April 19, 1944
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The Headlines
Fund Drive for $4,500,000 Opens To Meet Needs of City's Charities; FUND DRIVE OPENS; GOAL IS $4,500,000
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
- José Echegaray (1832)
- Getúlio Vargas (1882)
- Glenn T. Seaborg (1912)
- Jayne Mansfield (1933)
- Ferdinand I of Austria (1793)
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
29,997 days ago
(82 years, 67 days)