Friday, February 9, 1945

From the day

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The Headlines

EUROPEANS TO GET FOOD FROM BRITAIN; Allies Propose to Send 10% of Stores There to French, Belgians and Dutch

#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: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attack a German destroyer in Førdefjorden, Norway.

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• World War II: Battle of the Atlantic: HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.

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You Share a Birthday With

• William Henry Harrison (1773)
• Thomas Paine (1737)
• J. M. Coetzee (1940)
• Alice Walker (1944)
• Joseph Stiglitz (1943)

Slang

Tech Check

Atomic Bomb, ENIAC Computer & Microwave Oven Principle.

Cost of Living (1940)