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Wednesday, March 7, 1945
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The Headlines
RUSSIANS HEM PORT; Set Up 200-Mile Front on Oder Facing Berlin From Baltic South BAY MOUTH REACHED Harbor Is Under Gunfire After 29-Mile Sweep --Grudziadz Falls Wide "Berlin Front" Formed RUSSIANS HEM PORT IN STETTIN SWEEP Swinemuende Also Threatened
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Rum and Coca-Cola
The Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen and His Orchestra
The must-have
Slinky (Gimbels Demo)
You Share a Birthday With
- Alessandro Manzoni (1785)
- Maurice Ravel (1875)
- Tomáš Masaryk (1850)
- John Herschel (1792)
- Piet Mondrian (1872)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
Gi
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Bobby Soxer
neatodreamydreamboat
Tech Check
Atomic Bomb, ENIAC Computer & Microwave Oven Principle.
Cost of Living (1940)
Loaf of Bread
$0.08
Gallon of Gas
$0.18
Average Home
$2,938
New Car
$850
Time Elapsed
29,675 days ago
(81 years, 110 days)