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Wednesday, December 20, 1944
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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
You Share a Birthday With
- Kim Young-sam (1927)
- Jaroslav Heyrovský (1890)
- John III of Sweden (1537)
- Ferdinand Buisson (1841)
- David Bohm (1917)
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
29,752 days ago
(81 years, 187 days)