Wednesday, January 24, 1945

From the day

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The Headlines

NEW CLOTHING CURB CUTS PRICES 6 TO 7%; WPB and OPA Announce Rollback Plan to Plug 'Worst Breach' in Economy NEW CLOTHING CURB CUTS PRICES 6 TO 7% First Half of 1943 Pricing Base An Eight-Point Program Program to Outlast War

#1 on Your Hit Parade

Don't Fence Me In

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

The must-have

Slinky (Gimbels Demo)

You Share a Birthday With

• Frederick the Great (1712)
• Joachim Gauck (1940)
• Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais (1732)
• E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776)
• Edith Wharton (1862)

Slang

Tech Check

Atomic Bomb, ENIAC Computer & Microwave Oven Principle.

Cost of Living (1940)