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Monday, July 17, 1944
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The Headlines
JAPANESE CUT OFF IN NEW GUINEA STAB; Vanguards Circled After They Cross River 21 Miles East of Aitape -- 344 Killed in a Day JAPANESE CUT OFF IN NEW GUINEA STAB
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
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
29,908 days ago
(81 years, 343 days)