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Sunday, May 7, 1944

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The Headlines

38 IN EIRE PLACED ON U.S. BLACKLIST; Government Answers Refusal of Irish to Expel Axis Agents in That Country 38 IN EIRE PLACED ON U.S. BLACKLIST

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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

gobbledygooksnafufubar

Gi

ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that

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

29,979 days ago

(82 years, 49 days)