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Friday, December 8, 1944
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The Headlines
1,700 Germans Live in Saar Cave; Defied Order to Flee Into Reich; 1,700 GERMANS LIVE IN A BIG SAAR CAVE
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
You Share a Birthday With
- Jim Morrison (1943)
- Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832)
- Mary, Queen of Scots (1542)
- Jean Sibelius (1865)
- Diego Rivera (1886)
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
29,764 days ago
(81 years, 199 days)