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Sunday, July 23, 1944
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The Headlines
DODGERS CRUSHED BY PIRATES, 11-0; Three Runs Cross in First and Five in Fourth -- Now Alone in Cellar
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
G.I. Jive
Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five
The must-have
Slinky
You Share a Birthday With
- Sergio Mattarella (1941)
- Haile Selassie (1892)
- Raymond Chandler (1888)
- Pope Clement XI (1649)
- Vera Rubin (1928)
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
29,902 days ago
(81 years, 337 days)