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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

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#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

gobbledygooksnafufubar

Gi

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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

29,830 days ago

(81 years, 265 days)