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Sunday, November 19, 1944

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The Headlines

Ohio State Trips Illinois, 26-12, Before 83,627 for Eighth in Row; Buckeyes Rally After Greenwood Races 35 Yards to Score for Rivals Following Fumble Horvath, Brugge Star OHIO STATE TRIPS ILLINOIS, 26 TO 12

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#1 on Your Hit Parade

You Always Hurt the One You Love

The Mills Brothers

The must-have

Slinky

On This Day

  • World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the sixth War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US$14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.

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  • World War II: Thirty members of the Luxembourgish resistance defend the town of Vianden against a larger Waffen-SS attack in the Battle of Vianden.

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  • The founding congress of the Communist Party of Transcarpathian Ukraine is held in Mukachevo.

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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

29,783 days ago

(81 years, 218 days)