Thursday, November 18, 1943

From the day

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The Headlines

Pork Ration Value Cut 2 Points As Hog Supplies Jam Warehouses; OPA CUTS 2 POINTS OFF PORK RATIONS

#1 on Your Hit Parade

Paper Doll

Unknown Artist

The must-have

Slinky

On This Day

• World War II: In the first action of the Berlin Air Offensive, four hundred and forty Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF loses nine aircraft and 53 air crew.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Margaret Atwood (1939)
• Louis Daguerre (1787)
• Carl Maria von Weber (1786)
• Patrick Blackett (1897)
• Alan Shepard (1923)

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Tech Check

Colossus Computer, Slinky & Aqualung (Scuba).

Cost of Living (1940)