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Thursday, August 31, 1944
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The Headlines
SOUTH FRANCE PUT WIDER EISENHOWER; 7th Army Joins His Command -- Equality of Bradley and Montgomery Is Reported SOUTH FRANCE PUT UNDER EISENHOWER
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
You Share a Birthday With
- Maria Montessori (1870)
- Théophile Gautier (1811)
- Commodus (161)
- Hermann von Helmholtz (1821)
- Jahangir (1569)
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
29,863 days ago
(81 years, 298 days)