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Sunday, July 2, 1944
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The Headlines
4 ERRORS IN NINTH BY YANKS ENABLE WHITE SOX TO WIN; Three Runs Erase 2-0 Lead, Ruin Borowy's 2-Hitter and Chicago Triumphs, 3-2 DOUBLE STARTS TROUBLE Trosky's Puny Hit Is Followed by Collapse of New York Defense -- Hemsley Hurt 4 ERRORS IN NINTH BEAT YANKEES, 3-2
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
29,924 days ago
(81 years, 359 days)