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Monday, June 19, 1944

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The Headlines

JAPANESE BALKED; Our Landing Craft Guns Sink 13 Troop-Laden Barges Off Saipan 5 SHIPS DESTROYED Bombers Send Craft to Bottom at Sorong on New Guinea Tip ENEMY COUNTER-ATTACKS ON MARIANAS ISLE JAPANESE BALKED IN SAIPAN LANDING

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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

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Gi

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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

29,936 days ago

(82 years, 6 days)