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Friday, January 24, 1941
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The Headlines
JAPANESE SHOOTS A BRITISH OFFICIAL IN SHANGHAI ROW; Also Wounds Two Countrymen in a Rage at Higher Taxes Asked at Public Meeting 5,000 AT SESSION LOOK ON U.S. Member of the Municipal Council Hit by Chair After Bullets Fell Chairman
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
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Unknown Artist
The must-have
Red Ryder BB Gun
You Share a Birthday With
- Frederick the Great (1712)
- Joachim Gauck (1940)
- Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais (1732)
- E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776)
- Edith Wharton (1862)
Slang
Slang of the decade
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Tech Check
Aerosol Spray Cans, Z3 Computer & Dacron.
Cost of Living (1940)
Loaf of Bread
$0.08
Gallon of Gas
$0.18
Average Home
$2,938
New Car
$850
Time Elapsed
31,179 days ago
(85 years, 154 days)