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On the date

Saturday, October 28, 1944

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The Headlines

Argentina Calls for Conference Of American Foreign Ministers; Argentina Asks Pan American Parley Of All Hemisphere Foreign Ministers

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

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

29,805 days ago

(81 years, 240 days)