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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
Read in The New York Times →#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
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)