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Thursday, August 17, 1944
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The Headlines
DEWEY ATTACKS FOUR-POWER MOVE TO CONTROL WORLD; Warns Dumbarton Oaks Conference Not to 'Get Off on a Cynical Foot' PLEA FOR SMALL NATIONS Speaks for Republican Party in Asserting Rights of All Must Be Protected DEWEY ATTACKS FOUR-POWER MOVE
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
29,878 days ago
(81 years, 313 days)