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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

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#1 on Your Hit Parade

I'll Be Seeing You

Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra

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

29,926 days ago

(81 years, 361 days)