Wednesday, April 15, 1942

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The Headlines

G.E., KRUPP NAMED AS A PATENT POOL SLOWING US IN WAR; J.H. Lewin Tells Senators Tungsten-Carbide Monopoly Has Cut Our Production AND THUS HELPED OUR FOES Material, Vital in Tooling Work, Rose to $453 a Pound Here, Justice Official Charges PARADOX: PATENT POOL BECOMES BOTTLENECK G.E., KRUPP NAMED AS A PATENT POOL

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Moonlight Cocktail

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The must-have

Red Ryder BB Gun

On This Day

• The George Cross is awarded "to the island fortress of Malta" by King George VI.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
• Leonhard Euler (1707)
• Nikita Khrushchev (1894)
• Kim Il Sung (1912)
• Émile Durkheim (1858)

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Tech Check

V-2 Rocket, Bazooka & Napalm.

Cost of Living (1940)