Monday, August 16, 1943

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The Headlines

OUR FOOD PROGRAM SHARPLY ASSAILED IN FEDERAL REPORT; Failure to Set Up World-Wide Plan Is Scored by Committee in Survey of Progress PARITY CALLED HARMFUL We Can Never Feed All Lands, Members Say, and Warn on Hunger From 'Bungling' Our Food Program Is Attacked In Committee Report to Wickard

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On This Day

• World War II: 317 Greek civilians are murdered by soldiers of the German 1st Mountain Division in the village of Kommeno, Greece.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Zachary Taylor (1816)
• Charles Bukowski (1920)
• Menachem Begin (1913)
• Gabriel Lippmann (1845)
• T. E. Lawrence (1888)

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Tech Check

Colossus Computer, Slinky & Aqualung (Scuba).

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