Tuesday, April 17, 1945

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The Headlines

18,000 Vote Phone Strike Here; Delay Likely to Let Truman Act; 18,000 HERE VOTE FOR PHONE STRIKE

#1 on Your Hit Parade

My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time

Les Brown and His Orchestra with Doris Day

The must-have

Slinky (Gimbels Demo)

On This Day

• World War II: Montese, Italy, is liberated from Nazi forces.

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• Historian Tran Trong Kim is appointed the Prime Minister of the Empire of Vietnam.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916)
• J. P. Morgan (1837)
• William Holden (1918)
• Thornton Wilder (1897)
• Alain Poher (1909)

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Tech Check

Atomic Bomb, ENIAC Computer & Microwave Oven Principle.

Cost of Living (1940)