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Friday, July 28, 1944
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The Headlines
Vandenberg Starts Move To End Congress' Recess; Says Consequences of Early German Defeat Are Such That Immediate Consideration of Reconversion Legislation Is Advisable MOVE BEGUN TO END CONGRESS' RECESS
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
- Karl Popper (1902)
- Ludwig Feuerbach (1804)
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929)
- Marcel Duchamp (1887)
- Beatrix Potter (1866)
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
29,898 days ago
(81 years, 333 days)