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Saturday, November 25, 1944

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The Headlines

JAPAN IS SURPRISED; Pictures Show Blazes at Plant and in Center of the City FLIERS SAW BLASTS Japanese Planes Arose but Failed to Get to Height of Attackers PLANE FACTORY HIT IN BLOW AT 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

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

29,777 days ago

(81 years, 212 days)