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Thursday, June 29, 1944
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The Headlines
ORNE RIVER NEARED; British Win a Great Tank Battle and Put Foe in Turmoil VITAL EXITS ARE CUT Maupertus Falls to U.S. Forces -- Enemy Clings to Cap de la Hague ORNE RIVER NEARED BY BRITISH FORCES
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
I'll Be Seeing You
Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra
The must-have
Slinky
You Share a Birthday With
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900)
- Giorgio Napolitano (1925)
- Giacomo Leopardi (1798)
- Murad I (1326)
- Oriana Fallaci (1929)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
Gi
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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
29,926 days ago
(81 years, 361 days)