Thursday, December 28, 1944

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The Headlines

PRESIDENT ORDERS ARMY TO TAKE OVER WARD'S IN CHICAGO; Planned Seizure May Extend to 7 Plants Which Company Operates in Other Cities RIOT IN DETROIT AREA SHOP Some of Firm's Kansas City Workers Quit -- Chicago Union Calls for Strike Today MONTGOMERY WARD STORE AFTER RIOTERS ENTERED YESTERDAY PRESIDENT ORDERS SEIZURE OF WARD'S

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Don't Fence Me In

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

The must-have

Slinky

On This Day

• Maurice Richard becomes the first player to score eight points in one game of NHL ice hockey.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Woodrow Wilson (1856)
• John von Neumann (1903)
• Stan Lee (1922)
• Maggie Smith (1934)
• Arthur Eddington (1882)

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Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1940)