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Monday, December 11, 1944

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The Headlines

ATHENS IS SHELLED; BOMBERS HIT ELAS; Leftists on Hill Fire on City -Battle Pitch Mounts as Salonika Is Fortified ATHENS IS SHELLED; BOMBERS HIT ELAS

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#1 on Your Hit Parade

Don't Fence Me In

Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen and His Orchestra

The must-have

Slinky

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

gobbledygooksnafufubar

Gi

ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that

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

29,761 days ago

(81 years, 196 days)