Monday, February 5, 1945

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The Headlines

City in 1945-46 Gets $133,375,000 Of $272,500,000 Shared by State; STATE WILL ALLOT $133,375,000 TO CITY

#1 on Your Hit Parade

Rum and Coca-Cola

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

The must-have

Slinky (Gimbels Demo)

On This Day

• World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.

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You Share a Birthday With

• William S. Burroughs (1914)
• Robert Peel (1788)
• Robert Hofstadter (1915)
• Adlai Stevenson II (1900)
• Alan Hodgkin (1914)

Slang

Tech Check

Atomic Bomb, ENIAC Computer & Microwave Oven Principle.

Cost of Living (1940)