Saturday, June 12, 1943

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The Headlines

Senate 'Holds Line' on Prices, Balking Plan to Bar Roll-Backs; SENATE HALTS PLAN TO BAN ROLL-BACKS

#1 on Your Hit Parade

Taking a Chance on Love

Unknown Artist

The must-have

Slinky

On This Day

• The Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Brzeżany, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine). Around 1,180 Jews are led to the city's old Jewish graveyard and shot.

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You Share a Birthday With

• George H. W. Bush (1924)
• Anne Frank (1929)
• Anthony Eden (1897)
• Egon Schiele (1890)
• Johanna Spyri (1827)

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Tech Check

Colossus Computer, Slinky & Aqualung (Scuba).

Cost of Living (1940)