Sunday, September 3, 1944

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The Headlines

BYRNES FORMS UNIT TO CONVERT PLANTS FROM WAR TO PEACE; Joint Board of Four Major Agencies Will Guide Disposal of the Government-Owned

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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

• Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from the Westerbork transit camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving three days later.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (1936)
• Carl David Anderson (1905)
• Urho Kekkonen (1900)
• Eduardo Galeano (1940)
• Ferdinand Porsche (1875)

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Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1940)