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Monday, May 1, 1944
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The Headlines
MAYOR OFFERS PLAN TO INSURE HEALTH OF WORKERS IN CITY; All-Inclusive Coverage Would Be Open to Those Earning Up to $5,000 and Families COST PUT AT 4% OF PAY Employer Would Contribute at Least Half of It -- Non-Profit Corporation to Be Set Up HEALTH INSURANCE PROPOSED BY MAYOR
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
I Love You
Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra
The must-have
Slinky
You Share a Birthday With
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769)
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852)
- Joseph Addison (1672)
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881)
- Joseph Heller (1923)
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
29,985 days ago
(82 years, 55 days)