Friday, June 14, 1940

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The Headlines

PARIS IS OPEN CITY; French Rule Out Fight in Capital, but Carry on With Aid of British FORCES STILL INTACT But Germans Pour Over Bridgeheads in Effort to Hem in Defenders

The must-have

Red Ryder BB Gun

On This Day

• World War II: The German occupation of Paris begins.

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• Seven hundred and twenty-eight Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first inmates of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

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• The Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Lithuania, resulting in Lithuanian loss of independence.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Che Guevara (1928)
• Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811)
• Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736)
• Karl Landsteiner (1868)
• Alois Alzheimer (1864)

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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)