Tuesday, May 7, 1940

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The Headlines

LEADERS IN SCIENCE TELL COLLEGE MEN OUTLOOK IS BRIGHT; Technology Is Creating Vast New Fields, 400 Guests of General Motors Hear THEIR QUESTIONS TAKEN UP Compton and Johnson Among 'Experts' at Fair Forum on Youth Problems

The must-have

Red Ryder BB Gun

On This Day

• World War II: The Norway Debate in the British House of Commons begins, and leads to the replacement of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with Winston Churchill three days later.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Rabindranath Tagore (1861)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840)
• David Hume (1711)
• Johannes Brahms (1833)
• Josip Broz Tito (1892)

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)