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On the date
Thursday, May 25, 1944
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The Headlines
BOTH FRONTS GAIN; Beachhead Forces Peril Cisterna and Drive On Toward Rome FRENCH SEIZE PICO 8th Army Advances -U.S. Units Push North to Make Junction BOTH FRONTS GAIN IN BATTLE OF ITALY
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
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803)
- Pieter Zeeman (1865)
- Ian McKellen (1939)
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803)
- Igor Sikorsky (1889)
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
29,961 days ago
(82 years, 31 days)