Thursday, July 31, 1941

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The Headlines

NAVY YARD STRIKE DUE TO END TODAY AS OPM STEPS IN; Electrical Union Expected to Order Men to Return to All Vital Defense Projects

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Daddy

Unknown Artist

The must-have

Red Ryder BB Gun

On This Day

• World War II: The Battle of Smolensk concludes with Germany capturing about 300,000 Soviet Red Army prisoners.

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• The Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring orders SS General Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired Final Solution of the Jewish question."

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You Share a Birthday With

• Milton Friedman (1912)
• Louis de Funès (1914)
• Primo Levi (1919)
• Premchand (1880)
• Friedrich Wöhler (1800)

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Tech Check

Aerosol Spray Cans, Z3 Computer & Dacron.

Cost of Living (1940)