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Saturday, August 19, 1944
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The Headlines
DEWEY ACCEPTS BID TO TALKS WITH HULL ON WORLD SECURITY; He Names Dulles to Act for Him in Moves for 'Wholly Bipartisan' Peace Plan WOULD SPEED ACCORDS Secretary Wires Promptly, Welcoming Parleys With Governor's Appointee DEWEY ACCEPTS HULL BID TO TALKS
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
29,875 days ago
(81 years, 310 days)