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Sunday, December 31, 1944
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The Headlines
JAPANESE PLANES ATTACK OUR SHIPS; 8 Downed Off Panay as Enemy Claims Fliers Sank 11 Vessels in Mindoro-Bound Convoy JAPANESE PLANES ATTACK OUR SHIPS
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
29,741 days ago
(81 years, 176 days)