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Tuesday, August 29, 1944
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The Headlines
HILLMAN DEFENDS WORK OF CIO-PAC, DENIES AIM TO RULE; Tells House Committee That His Group Keeps to Law on Its Finances and Activities WIDER INQUIRY IS URGED Chairman Promises to Take Up 'America First' -- Other Bodies Already Under Scrutiny HOUSE GROUP HEARS HILLMAN ON PAC
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
29,865 days ago
(81 years, 300 days)