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Friday, September 29, 1944

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The Headlines

MOSCOW'S FEARS ARE NOT RESOLVED BY 3-POWER PARLEY; Lingering Distrust of U.S. and Other Western Powers Is Said to Prompt Boundary Views OLD LEAGUE IS RECALLED Russia, While Seeking World Cooperation Now as Then, Recalls Years of Exclusion SOVIET FEARS BLOCK SECURITY ACCORD

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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

29,835 days ago

(81 years, 270 days)