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Friday, October 20, 1944

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The Headlines

ALLIES NEAR VENLO; British Troops, Our Tanks Push Foe Back Upon Meuse in Holland AACHEN MOSTLY WON Canadians Speed Drive to Chase the Germans From Antwerp Area Machine-Gunning the Germans, Setting Up a Field Piece and Digging In ALLIES NEAR VENLO, ENEMY PULLS BACK

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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

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

29,813 days ago

(81 years, 248 days)