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Tuesday, May 9, 1944
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The Headlines
4-MILE GAIN MADE; Soviet Drive Overruns Main Nazi Defenses, Seizes Inkerman ENEMY FORCE IS SPLIT Planes and Ships Sink 4 More Transports -- Foe Reports Battle in Rumania RED ARMY SPANS A RIVER INTO RUMANIA 4-MILE GAIN MADE IN CRIMEAN DRIVE
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
- J. M. Barrie (1860)
- Howard Carter (1874)
- José Ortega y Gasset (1883)
- Glenda Jackson (1936)
- Sophie Scholl (1921)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
Gi
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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
29,978 days ago
(82 years, 48 days)