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Wednesday, May 10, 1944
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The Headlines
' Heavies' Pace Blow at Nazis From Coast Into the Reich; U.S. 'HEAVIES' PACE BIG BLOW AT NAZIS
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
- Fred Astaire (1899)
- Heydar Aliyev (1923)
- Gustav Stresemann (1878)
- Karl Barth (1886)
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788)
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
29,976 days ago
(82 years, 46 days)