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Thursday, December 7, 1944
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The Headlines
Russians Lash at Budapest; Now 44 Miles From Austria; RUSSIAN ASSAULT LASHES BUDAPEST
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
I'm Making Believe
The Ink Spots and Ella Fitzgerald
The must-have
Slinky
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
29,765 days ago
(81 years, 200 days)