Remember When 1942

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•  Income per year  ..... $1,880•  Minimum wage  ............. 30¢•  New house  ................ $3,770•  Rent  ................................. $35•  New car ......................... $920•  Gallon of gas  ................... 15¢•  Gallon of milk  ................. 62¢•  Loaf of bread  .................... 9¢•  First-class stamp  ..............3¢•  Movie ticket  ...................  27¢

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Franklin D. Roosevelt32nd. U.S. PresidentServed March 4, 1933 – April 12, 1945

‘Yes, we believe that the Nazis andthe Fascists have asked for it —and they are going to get it. ’

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“Casablanca” premiers in New York.

• PresidentRooseveltsignsabillcreat-ingtheWomen’sAuxiliaryArmyCorps(WAAC)onMay15.• ThefirstAfricanAmericanseamenaretakenintotheU.S.NavyonMay20.• TheOfficeofWarInformation,apropa-gandacenter,opensJune13intheUnitedStates.• Themovie“Casablanca”premiersNov.26attheHollywoodTheaterinNewYorkCity.

Movies• “Casablanca”• “TheTalkoftheTown”• “Bambi”• “JungleBook”• “Now,Voyager”• “TheBlackSwan”• “Mrs.Miniver”• “CatPeople”• “ToBeorNottoBe”• “ANighttoRemember”

Music• “WhiteChristmas,”BingCrosby• “(I’veGotaGalIn)Kalama-zoo,”GlennMiller• “Tangerine,”JimmyDorsey• “MoonightCocktail,”GlennMiller

• “SleepyLagoon,”HarryJames• “(IGotSpursThat)Jingle,Jingle,Jingle,”KayKyser• “AStringofPearls,”GlennMiller• “BluesintheNight,”WoodyHerman• “JerseyBounce,”BennyGoodman• “DeepintheHeartofTexas,”AlvenoRey

remember when...

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Anne Frank starts her diary.

BORN THIS YEAR: Jimi Hendrix, musician (Nov. 27). Above left: Muhammad Ali, boxer (Jan. 17);

Barbra Streisand, musician/actress (April 24); Harrison Ford, actor (July 13); Joe Biden, politician (Nov. 20).

World events• U.S.andPhlippinetroopsfighttheBattleofBataanagainsttheJapaneseJan.1.• JapandeclareswaragainsttheNeth-erlandsonJan.11andivadestheDutchEastIndies.• NazisattheWannseeConferencein

BerlinonJan.20decidethe“FinalSolu-tiontotheJewishproblem”isrelocationandlaterextermination.• ThefirstAmericanforcesarriveinEuropeonJan.26,landinginNorthernIreland.• C.S.Lewis’“TheScrewtapeLetters”isfirstpublishedFeb.1.• Lt.EdwardO’HarebecomesAmerica’sfirstU.S.NavyflyingaceofWorldWarIIonFeb.20.

• TheBataanPeninsulafallsApril9andtheBataanDeathMarchbegins.• TheAlliesburnthemainoilfieldsofBurmaasJapaneseforcesreachYenang-yaungonApril17.ThebattlewouldendtwodayslaterinAlliedvictory.• TokyoisattackedApril18bytheDoo-littleRaid,asmallforceofB-25bomberscommandedbyLt.Col.JimmyDoolittle.• TheReichstagmeetsforthelasttimeApril26,dissolvingandproclaimingAdolfHitlerthe“SupremeJudgeoftheGermanPeople.”• TheAllieswintheBattleoftheCoralSeaonMay8.Itisthefirstbattlewheretwo

enemyfleetsfightwithoutseeingeachother’sships.

• TheJapanesenavaladvanceinthePa-cificishaltedJune7withanAlliedvictoryattheBattleofMidway.• Onher13thbirthday,AnneFrankmakesherfirstentryinhewnewdiaryJune12.HerfamilywouldgointohidingJuly6.• ThesystematicdeportationofJewsfromtheWarsawGhettobeginsJuly22.• BritishforcesarrestIndianleaderMo-handasGandhiinBombayonAug.9.• TheBattleofStalingradbeginsAug.23asGermantroopsreachthesuburbsofStalingrad.• ThefirstA-4rocketissuccessfullylaunchedOct.3fromTestStandVIIatPeenemünde,Germany.Therocketflies147kilometreswideandreachesaheightof84.5kilometres,becomingthefirstman-madeobjecttoreachspace.• TheBattleofGuadalcanalendsNov.15.AlthoughtheUnitedStatesNavysuffersheavylosses,itretainscontrolofGuadal-canal.• TheAlliesissuetheJointDec-larationbyMembersoftheUnitedNationsonDec.17,thefirsttimetheypubliclyacknowledgetheHolocaust.

U.S. News• Morethan1,400shellsarefiredataslow-movingobjectintheskiesoverLosAngelesonFeb.25,trig-geringawartimeblackoutovermostofSouthernCalifornia.

Henry A. Wallace33rd. U.S. Vice President

Served Jan. 20, 1941 – Jan. 20, 1945

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C.S. Lewis publishes “The Screwtape Letters”