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Thursday, April 20, 1944

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The Headlines

HITCHCOCK KILLED IN CRASH IN BRITAIN; Polo Star, Hero of Lafayette Escadrille, Was Head of Fighter Plane Group HITCHCOCK KILLED IN CRASH IN BRITAIN KILLED IN ENGLAND

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#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

Catchphrases of 1944

  • Kilroy was here

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

29,996 days ago

(82 years, 66 days)