From the day
On the date
Friday, September 22, 1944
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The Headlines
Wallace Calls Roosevelt Better Fitted Than Dewey; Cites Importance of President's Ties With Churchill, Stalin and Generalissimo in Solving Post-War Crises WALLACE PRAISES ROOSEVELT ABILITY
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
- Michael Faraday (1791)
- Wilhelm Keitel (1882)
- Peter Simon Pallas (1741)
- Anne of Cleves (1515)
- Junko Tabei (1939)
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
29,841 days ago
(81 years, 276 days)