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Tuesday, August 8, 1944

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The Headlines

TWO QUITTING WPB OVER ARMY SECRECY ON ARMS PRODUCTION; Nelson Reports Aides Resigned in Protest Against Removal of Part of Report HE WILL PURSUE INQUIRY War Department Officials Deleted Data on Supplies on Hand and Future Needs 2 QUITTING WPB IN DATA DISPUTE

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#1 on Your Hit Parade

Swinging on a Star

Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra and the Williams Brothers Quartet

The must-have

Slinky

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

gobbledygooksnafufubar

Gi

ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that

Bobby Soxer

neatodreamydreamboat

Catchphrases of 1944

  • Kilroy was here

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

29,886 days ago

(81 years, 321 days)