yesterwire.comBack to search

On the date

Wednesday, December 20, 1944

From the day

Memories from that day

No memories yet. Add yours if you remember this day.

The Headlines

PLOT TO RESTRICT BOMBSIGHT OUTPUT LAID TO NORDEN, INC.; 2 Corporation Officials, Navy Commander and Associate Named in Indictments INVENTOR NOT INVOLVED Steps to Prevent Production in Outside Plant Charged -$109,000 in Fees Assailed PLOT ON BOMBSIGHT LAID TO NORDEN, INC.

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

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

29,752 days ago

(81 years, 187 days)