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Thursday, November 2, 1944
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The Headlines
INVADE WALCHEREN; British Marines and Soldiers Land on West and South
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
I'll Walk Alone
Dinah Shore
The must-have
Slinky
You Share a Birthday With
- James K. Polk (1795)
- Warren G. Harding (1865)
- Marie Antoinette (1755)
- George Boole (1815)
- Odysseas Elytis (1911)
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
29,800 days ago
(81 years, 235 days)