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Tuesday, November 28, 1944

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The Headlines

TOKYO HARBOR HIT; Factory Waterside Was Target in Swift B-29 Follow-Up Blow CLOUD VEILED CITY Visual Bombing Tangled Bangkok Rail Yards, Vital to Japanese WAR IN PACIFIC MOVES CLOSER TO TOKYO FROM PHILIPPINE AND SAIPAN ISLANDS TOKYO HARBOR HIT BY 'SUPERFORTS' LED TOKYO ATTACK

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#1 on Your Hit Parade

Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall

The Ink Spots and Ella Fitzgerald

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

29,774 days ago

(81 years, 209 days)