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Tuesday, October 3, 1944
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The Headlines
JOHNSTON, GAYLORD OPPOSE HIGHER PAY BEFORE WAR ENDS; Chamber and Manufacturing Heads Tell WLB 'Little Steel' Formula Should Stay FEAR INFLATION SPIRAL They Say Increases Would Come Out of the Treasury -- 'White Collar' Workers Plead JOHNSTON OPPOSES HIGHER WAGES NOW
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
You Always Hurt the One You Love
The Mills Brothers
The must-have
Slinky
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
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Bobby Soxer
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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
29,830 days ago
(81 years, 265 days)