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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
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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Gi
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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
29,813 days ago
(81 years, 248 days)