Tuesday, March 27, 1945

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The Headlines

17 INDICTED HERE AS NARCOTICS RING; Federal Charges Reveal Source of Supply in Illicit Poppy Fields in Mexico

#1 on Your Hit Parade

Candy

Johnny Mercer, Jo Stafford and the Pied Pipers with Paul Weston and His Orchestra

The must-have

Slinky (Gimbels Demo)

On This Day

• World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins. Argentina declares war on the Axis Powers.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Wilhelm Röntgen (1845)
• James Callaghan (1912)
• Gloria Swanson (1899)
• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886)
• Eisaku Satō (1901)

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Tech Check

Atomic Bomb, ENIAC Computer & Microwave Oven Principle.

Cost of Living (1940)