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Wednesday, June 6, 1945
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The Headlines
Argentina Closes Pro-Allied Club Giving Relief to Liberated Peoples; ARGENTINA CLOSES PRO-ALLIED GROUP Leader Resisted Pressure
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Candy
Johnny Mercer, Jo Stafford and the Pied Pipers with Paul Weston and His Orchestra
The must-have
Slinky (Gimbels Demo)
You Share a Birthday With
- Alexander Pushkin (1799)
- Diego Velázquez (1599)
- Thomas Mann (1875)
- Sukarno (1901)
- Pierre Corneille (1606)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
Gi
ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that
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
29,584 days ago
(81 years, 19 days)