Saturday, December 4, 1943

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The Headlines

1,000 BIG BOMBERS, 7,789 OTHER PLANES BUILT IN NOVEMBER; Record Productions Achieved at Pace of One Every Five Minutes Around Clock NEW PEAKS IN NAVY YARDS 250,000-Ton Output Is Largely of Combat Ships, Among Them Many Aircraft Carriers 1,000 BIG BOMBERS BUILT IN NOVEMBER

#1 on Your Hit Parade

Paper Doll

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The must-have

Slinky

On This Day

• World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes down the Works Progress Administration, because of the high levels of wartime employment in the United States.

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• World War II: In Yugoslavia, resistance leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito proclaims a provisional democratic Yugoslav government in-exile.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Francisco Franco (1892)
• Rainer Maria Rilke (1875)
• Thomas Carlyle (1795)
• Samuel Butler (novelist) (1835)
• Albert Bandura (1925)

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Tech Check

Colossus Computer, Slinky & Aqualung (Scuba).

Cost of Living (1940)