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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
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
- Elizabeth II (1926)
- Max Weber (1864)
- Charlotte Brontë (1816)
- Anthony Quinn (1915)
- Percy Williams Bridgman (1882)
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
29,995 days ago
(82 years, 65 days)