Thursday, January 25, 1940

From the day

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The Headlines

JAPANESE ABANDON LAST-MINUTE TALK ON U.S. PACT LAPSE; American Abrogation Is Called an Attempt to Wreck the 'New Order in East Asia' OTHER MARKETS SOUGHT Foreign Minister Arita Said to Be Annoyed by 'Brusque' Manner in Washington

The must-have

Red Ryder BB Gun

You Share a Birthday With

• Virginia Woolf (1882)
• Robert Burns (1759)
• Vladimir Vysotsky (1938)
• Robert Boyle (1627)
• W. Somerset Maugham (1874)

Slang

Tech Check

Color TV Broadcasts, Jeep & Radar Systems.

Style of 1940

Silhouette: Boxy and austere (Utility)

Material: Rayon and tweed

• Victory rolls
• Utility suits
• Snoods

Cost of Living (1940)