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Monday, October 16, 1944
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The Headlines
BOMBERS AGAIN RIP DUISBURG, COLOGNE; RAF Drops 5,500 More Tons on Ruhr Port -- Breaches Sorpe Dam -- U.S. Hits Oil Plants BOMBERS AGAIN RIP DUISBURG, COLOGNE
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
- Oscar Wilde (1854)
- Günter Grass (1927)
- David Ben-Gurion (1886)
- Eugene O'Neill (1888)
- Enver Hoxha (1908)
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
29,817 days ago
(81 years, 252 days)