Tuesday, August 20, 1940

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The Headlines

ITALIAN CITIES HIT; Boulogne Also Is Heavily Bombed Again After Raids in Reich ALARM AWAKENS BERLIN Firing Is Heard Near Capital-- Vital Plants Are Targets in Wide R.A.F. Flights Boulogne Bombed Again Aluminum Plant Damaged ITALIAN CITIES HIT BY R.A.F. BOMBERS Air Alarm Arouses Berlin Rome Discounts Bombings Raid on Boulogne Is Heavy Swiss See Raids in Reich Brussels Reported Bombed

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On This Day

• World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches, containing the line "Never was so much owed by so many to so few".

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• In Mexico City, exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded with an ice axe by Ramón Mercader. He dies the next day.

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• World War II: The Eighth Route Army launches the Hundred Regiments Offensive, a successful campaign to disrupt Japanese war infrastructure and logistics in occupied northern China.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Benjamin Harrison (1833)
• H. P. Lovecraft (1890)
• Salvatore Quasimodo (1901)
• Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779)
• Ron Paul (1935)

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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)