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Friday, April 21, 1944

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The Headlines

PATTERSON PLEADS FOR NATIONAL UNITY TO SPEED VICTORY; Says Spirit of Pearl Harbor Has Dwindled Away, but It Must Be Recaptured MANPOWER NEEDS GROW Hershey Explains Replacement Problem, Cooke Discusses Pacific at Times Hall PATTERSON PLEADS FOR NATIONAL UNITY

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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

29,995 days ago

(82 years, 65 days)