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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
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall
The Ink Spots and Ella Fitzgerald
The must-have
Slinky
You Share a Birthday With
- Friedrich Engels (1820)
- William Blake (1757)
- Stefan Zweig (1881)
- Alexander Blok (1880)
- Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
Gi
ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that
Bobby Soxer
neatodreamydreamboat
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)