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Saturday, June 17, 1944

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The Headlines

VITAL TOWN SEIZED; U.S. Forces Also Drive Nearer La Haye, Key Rail-Highway Center MONTEBOURG RE-WON Allied Troops Advance in Carentan Area -- Push On From Caumont VITAL TOWN SEIZED BY BRADLEY FORCES

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#1 on Your Hit Parade

I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)

Harry James and His Orchestra with Dick Haymes

The must-have

Slinky

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

gobbledygooksnafufubar

Gi

ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that

Bobby Soxer

neatodreamydreamboat

Catchphrases of 1944

  • Kilroy was here

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

29,938 days ago

(82 years, 8 days)