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On the date
Monday, May 8, 1944
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The Headlines
Germans Fail in Trickery To Dig Out Underground; Killings, Sabotage, False Allied Messages and Other Ruses Used in Effort to Detect and Smash Resistance Before Invasion GERMAN TRICKERY FAILS IN EUROPE
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
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
29,979 days ago
(82 years, 49 days)