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Thursday, September 21, 1944
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The Headlines
WAR FUND STARTS $17,200,000 DRIVE TO AID 31 AGENCIES; City's Goal Includes Eighth of National Quota, Lawrence Tells 1,200 at Dinner EISENHOWER LAUDS FUNDS Aldrich Says That Gifts Assist Millions All Over the World, Our Men and Allies $17,200,000 DRIVE OF WAR FUND OPENS
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
- H. G. Wells (1866)
- Kwame Nkrumah (1909)
- Leonard Cohen (1934)
- Abdul Hamid II (1842)
- Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853)
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
29,842 days ago
(81 years, 277 days)