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Monday, July 24, 1944
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The Headlines
AMERICANS BATTLE IN STREETS OF PISA; Advance on 7-Mile Front From City to Sea -- British Drive on Florence Gains AMERICANS BATTLE IN STREETS OF PISA
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
- Simón Bolívar (1783)
- Alexandre Dumas (1802)
- Amelia Earhart (1897)
- Henrik Pontoppidan (1857)
- Robert Graves (1895)
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
29,901 days ago
(81 years, 336 days)