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Wednesday, July 5, 1944
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The Headlines
CANADIANS SCORE; Smash Into Carpiquet, Key Caen Defense, and Join British ALLIES OVERRUN VERSON Americans Outflank La Haye du Puits in the Push South on Coast CANADIANS SCORE IN NORMANDY DRIVE
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
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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
29,920 days ago
(81 years, 355 days)