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Friday, December 15, 1944
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The Headlines
FAVORABLE REPORT IS SENT TO SENATE ON STETTINIUS AIDES; Connally Acts After Wagner Telephones Vote for MacLeish, Ending 10-to-10 Tie MIDNIGHT DEADLINE IS SET Other Five Are Approved by Safe Margins -- Resolution to Recall Nominations Fails STETTINIUS AIDES ARE ALL APPROVED
Read in The New York Times →#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
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
29,758 days ago
(81 years, 193 days)