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Tuesday, March 20, 1945

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The Headlines

FOE IN DISORDER; 1,000 Tanks Rip Through Germans, Springing One Trap Near the Nahe 7TH CUTS WESTWALL 1st Army Enters Ruhr Plain--Ninth Orders Rhine Path Cleared First Reaches Ruhr Plain French Clear Soil of Foe RHINE RIVER BRIDGE AT REMAGEN AFTER IT HAD COLLAPSED U.S. Tanks Closing Traps Around Saar Basin Tanks Push on Kaiserslautern 80th Clears St. Wendel

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#1 on Your Hit Parade

Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive

Unknown Artist

The must-have

Slinky (Gimbels Demo)

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

gobbledygooksnafufubar

Gi

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Bobby Soxer

neatodreamydreamboat

Catchphrases of 1945

  • Who's on first?

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

29,662 days ago

(81 years, 97 days)