Tuesday, February 12, 1946

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The Headlines

CREDIT FOR BRITAIN UPHELD BY BYRNES AS BENEFIT TO U.S.; London Pledge to Support Our Plans to expand World Trade Praised in Speech Here DEFAULT TALK IS DECRIED Secretary Denies Loan Would Set Precedent for Grants to Other Governments Denies It Sets Precedent CREDIT FOR BRITAIN UPHELD BY BYRNES

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Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra with Vaughn Monroe and the Norton Sisters

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On This Day

• World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.

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• African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanizes the civil rights movement and partially inspires Orson Welles' film Touch of Evil.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Abraham Lincoln (1809)
• Charles Darwin (1809)
• Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (1768)
• Anna Pavlova (1881)
• Julian Schwinger (1918)

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Tech Check

Mobile Car Phones, Tupperware & Bikini.

Cost of Living (1940)