Tuesday, February 29, 1944

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The Headlines

ODT to Add Only 2 Coach Trains To Aid Those Stranded in Florida; FLORIDA STRANDED GET SCANT RAIL AID

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Bésame Mucho (Kiss Me Much)

Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra with Bob Eberly and Kitty Kallen

The must-have

Slinky

On This Day

• The Admiralty Islands are invaded in Operation Brewer, led by American general Douglas MacArthur, in World War II.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Gioachino Rossini (1792)
• Pope Paul III (1468)
• Bartholomew I of Constantinople (1940)
• Morarji Desai (1896)
• Herman Hollerith (1860)

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Tech Check

Harvard Mark I Computer, Kidney Dialysis Machine & Synthesized Quinine.

Cost of Living (1940)