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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
Read in The New York Times →#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
You Share a Birthday With
- Paul Dirac (1902)
- Dustin Hoffman (1937)
- Emiliano Zapata (1879)
- Ernest Lawrence (1901)
- Roger Penrose (1931)
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
29,886 days ago
(81 years, 321 days)