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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
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
29,936 days ago
(82 years, 6 days)