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Friday, November 17, 1944

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The Headlines

8,000 TONS DROPPED; Heavies Hit Field Guns, Foxholes, Strong Points in Aachen Sector RAF AIDS NINTH ARMY Fighter Escorts Strafe Railways -- 8 American Planes Are Lost 8,000 TONS DROPPED IN HEAVY BARRAGE

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#1 on Your Hit Parade

I'll Walk Alone

Dinah Shore

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

29,785 days ago

(81 years, 220 days)