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Monday, September 11, 1944
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The Headlines
DEWEY TOLD TO SHUN OVER-CONFIDENCE; Michigan Leaders Assert That Strong Campaign Is Needed to Offset Drive by PAC GOVERNOR DEWEY AT HIS BOYHOOD HOME TELL DEWEY TO SHUN OVER CONFIDENCE
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
29,852 days ago
(81 years, 287 days)