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Friday, December 1, 1944
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The Headlines
ROOSEVELT OUSTS LITTELL IN DISPUTE; ' Insubordination Inexcusable,' Says President -- Voorhis Asks House Group Inquiry Littell Dismissed by Roosevelt As an Insubordinate Official
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Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall
The Ink Spots and Ella Fitzgerald
The must-have
Slinky
You Share a Birthday With
- Georgy Zhukov (1896)
- Nikolai Lobachevsky (1792)
- Hasan ibn Ali (624)
- Anna Komnene (1083)
- Louis VI of France (1081)
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
29,771 days ago
(81 years, 206 days)