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Friday, May 5, 1944
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The Headlines
Sales of Ration-Free Meat Only Normal on First Day; Demand Lighter Than Average Thursday in Some Shops -- Retail Supplies Not Big Enough to Care for a Real Rush
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
- Karl Marx (1818)
- Søren Kierkegaard (1813)
- Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846)
- Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (1747)
- Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1921)
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
29,981 days ago
(82 years, 51 days)