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On the date
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
Read in The New York Times →#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
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)