Thursday, May 1, 1941

From the day

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The Headlines

PRESIDENT ORDERS SHIPS TAKEN OVER; CONVOY FOES LOSE; 2,000,000 Tons of Our Own and Foreign Vessels to Go at Once Into Bridge Overseas MARITIME BOARD TO ACT Senate Committee Hears From Hull and Smothers Two Anti-Convoy Resolutions PRESIDENT ORDERS SHIPS TAKEN OVER

#1 on Your Hit Parade

Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy)

Unknown Artist

The must-have

Red Ryder BB Gun

You Share a Birthday With

• Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769)
• Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852)
• Joseph Addison (1672)
• Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881)
• Joseph Heller (1923)

Slang

Tech Check

Aerosol Spray Cans, Z3 Computer & Dacron.

Cost of Living (1940)