Monday, February 26, 1945

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The Headlines

CHRYSLER FACING TIE-UP OF 100,000; Wide Stoppage of War Work Is Threatened as 13,000 at Detroit Refuse to End Strike

#1 on Your Hit Parade

Rum and Coca-Cola

The Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen and His Orchestra

The must-have

Slinky (Gimbels Demo)

On This Day

• World War II: US troops reclaim the Philippine island of Corregidor from the Japanese.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Victor Hugo (1802)
• Ariel Sharon (1928)
• Johnny Cash (1932)
• Christopher Marlowe (1564)
• Nadezhda Krupskaya (1861)

Slang

Tech Check

Atomic Bomb, ENIAC Computer & Microwave Oven Principle.

Cost of Living (1940)