From the day
On the date
Monday, December 25, 1944
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The Headlines
Mayor Sees End of 'Bookies'; Swope Dubious on Race Ban; La Guardia Plans to Shift Police to Fight 'Numbers' Racket -- Commission Head Expects Gambling to Continue END FOR 'BOOKIES' IS SEEN BY MAYOR
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
- Isaac Newton (1642)
- Anwar Sadat (1918)
- Humphrey Bogart (1899)
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876)
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924)
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
29,747 days ago
(81 years, 182 days)