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Saturday, August 12, 1944
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The Headlines
103 Trucking Firms Seized By Roosevelt to End Strike; ODT to Operate Midwest Highway Lines Which Defied WLB Pay Rise Order -- Union Sending 20,000 Back to Jobs ROOSEVELT SEIZES TRUCK COMPANIES
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
29,882 days ago
(81 years, 317 days)