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Friday, August 11, 1944
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The Headlines
ROOSEVELT TO HOLD POST FOR WALLACE IF DEMOCRATS WIN; But Vice President Wants to Know Future Program of Administration LIBERAL' VIEWS AT ISSUE Subject Scheduled for a Conference at the White House at a Later Date ROOSEVELT TO HOLD POST FOR WALLACE
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
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
29,884 days ago
(81 years, 319 days)