Saturday, August 31, 1940

From the day

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The Headlines

BORDERS PLEDGED; Bucharest Receives Axis Guarantee in Return for Ceding of Land RIBBENTROP HAILS ACCORD Calls It 'Impartial and Just' --Rumanian Soldiers Must Leave Area in 2 Weeks

#1 on Your Hit Parade

I'll Never Smile Again

Unknown Artist

The must-have

Red Ryder BB Gun

On This Day

• Pennsylvania Central Airlines Trip 19 crashes near Lovettsville, Virginia. The CAB investigation of the accident is the first investigation to be conducted under the Bureau of Air Commerce act of 1938.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Maria Montessori (1870)
• Théophile Gautier (1811)
• Commodus (161)
• Hermann von Helmholtz (1821)
• Jahangir (1569)

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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)