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Saturday, May 6, 1944

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The Headlines

4 RAIL YARDS HIT; Lines of Freight Cars Are Blown Into Bits in Somain Area PLOESTI BATTERED AGAIN Turnu Severin Also Is Bombed After Heavy RAF Attack on Capital of Hungary ALLIED BOMBS CONTINUE TO FIND THEIR TARGETS 4 RAIL YARDS HIT IN INVASION AREAS

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#1 on Your Hit Parade

I Love You

Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra

The must-have

Slinky

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

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Gi

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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

29,980 days ago

(82 years, 50 days)