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Tuesday, September 26, 1944
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The Headlines
U.S., Britain Devise Control Plan And Blacklists of Axis Industry; CONTROL IS DEVISED FOR AXIS INDUSTRY
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
- T. S. Eliot (1888)
- Martin Heidegger (1889)
- Pope Paul VI (1897)
- Ivan Pavlov (1849)
- Manmohan Singh (1932)
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
29,837 days ago
(81 years, 272 days)