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Wednesday, October 4, 1944
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The Headlines
ALFRED E. SMITH DIES HERE AT 70; 4 TIMES GOVERNOR; End Comes After a Sudden Relapse Following Earlier Turn for the Better RAN FOR PRESIDENT IN '28 His Rise From Newsboy and Fishmonger Had No Exact Parallel in U.S. History ALFRED E. SMITH DIES HERE AT 70
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
You Share a Birthday With
- Rutherford B. Hayes (1822)
- Buster Keaton (1895)
- Charlton Heston (1923)
- Vitaly Ginzburg (1916)
- Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (1942)
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
29,829 days ago
(81 years, 264 days)