Monday, December 18, 1944

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The Headlines

SENATORS PROPOSE A NEW JOB BUDGET FOR 60,000,000 MEN; It Would Require President to Tell Congress the Prospects of Maintaining This Level AND ESTIMATE FUND NEEDS Plan, Put In to Stimulate Study, Would Have Private Industry Do All It Could by Itself SENATORS PROPOSE A NEW JOB BUDGE

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Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen and His Orchestra

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On This Day

• The Supreme Court of the United States issued its decision in Korematsu v. United States supporting Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 which cleared the way for the incarceration of nearly all 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens, born and raised in the United States.

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• World War II: XX Bomber Command responds to the Japanese Operation Ichi-Go offensive by dropping five hundred tons of incendiary bombs on a supply base in Hankow, China.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Joseph Stalin (1878)
• Willy Brandt (1913)
• J. J. Thomson (1856)
• Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (1863)
• Paul Klee (1879)

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Tech Check

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

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