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Monday, September 18, 1944

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The Headlines

CITY SET TO SPEND $400,000,000 IN '45 IF U.S. GIVES HALF; Mayor Announces Completion of Post-War Construction Program -- Ready to Begin CONGRESS ACTION URGED La Guardia Says He Will Ask WPB at Once for Material to Resume Work on Tunnel

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#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

Catchphrases of 1944

  • Kilroy was here

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

29,845 days ago

(81 years, 280 days)