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Saturday, April 22, 1944
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The Headlines
PATTON GETS POST LINKED TO INVASION; General Arrives in Britain -- Command Not Specified but Assault Role Is Indicated IN GREAT BRITAIN PATTON GETS POST LINKED TO INVASION
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
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
29,994 days ago
(82 years, 64 days)