Tuesday, August 15, 1944

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The Headlines

HUNDREDS OF ITEMS GET WPB RELEASE; Order Allows Civilian Output if War Is Not Affected and Plants Get Men, Materials HUNDREDS OF ITEMS GET WPB RELEASE

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Swinging on a Star

Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra and the Williams Brothers Quartet

The must-have

Slinky

On This Day

• World War II: Operation Dragoon: Allied forces land in southern France.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Napoleon (1769)
• Walter Scott (1771)
• Louis de Broglie (1892)
• Sri Aurobindo (1872)
• Gerty Cori (1896)

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Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1940)