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Sunday, July 16, 1944
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The Headlines
2 FORTS IMPERILED; Red Army Is at Neman River, 39 Miles From East Prussia Line LONG GAIN WINS GOZHA Soviet Forces 47 Miles From Bialystok -- Nazis Tell of Push From Tarnopol 2 FORTS IMPERILED BY RUSSIAN DRIVES THE RED ARMY GOBBLES UP MORE TERRITORY
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
- Roald Amundsen (1872)
- Barbara Stanwyck (1907)
- Ginger Rogers (1911)
- Yasuo Fukuda (1936)
- Trygve Lie (1896)
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
29,909 days ago
(81 years, 344 days)