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Monday, May 15, 1944
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The Headlines
ORLEMANSKI BOWS TO BISHOP'S ORDER; HIS MISSION AIDED; As Priest Accepts Seclusion, Diocese Opens Way to Send Stalin's Note to Vatican WASHINGTON CAN CALL HIM Parishioners Voice Sympathy in Springfield for Pastor Going to a Monastery Orlemanski Accepts Suspension; Stalin's Note Can Go to Vatican
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
29,971 days ago
(82 years, 41 days)