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Friday, November 24, 1944

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The Headlines

B-29's Fill Air at Saipan As They Leave to Hit Tokyo; B-29's Roar Into the Air at Saipan As They Leave on 'Mission Tokyo'

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#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

gobbledygooksnafufubar

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

29,778 days ago

(81 years, 213 days)