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Devoted exclusively to the sale of horse meat for human consumption, a new wholesale market opened in Newark, N.J… Newsweek February 8, 1943 And don’t miss our own Chis Dickey’s recent “My Horsemeat Lunch”.

Devoted exclusively to the sale of horse meat for human consumption, a new wholesale market opened in Newark, N.J…

Newsweek February 8, 1943

And don’t miss our own Chis Dickey’s recent “My Horsemeat Lunch”.



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On This Date In 1946, The First Atomic Test At Bikini Atoll 

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One man feared gravity would be destroyed and everything would fall up.  Another prophesied that when the atomic bomb went off at Bikini, all the water in all the oceans would be turned to gas.  Another thought the bomb would blow a hole in the bottom of the Bikini lagoon and let all the water in the sea run out.

Newsweek July 1, 1946



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Victory in Europe Complete; Allies Now Turn Efforts Toward Smashing Jap War Machine A peace that passeth all understanding came to the world this week.  It was anticlimactic, it was premature, it was confusing, it was the greatest snafu of all time-but it was wonderful.  On the 2,075th day of the biggest, costliest war in history, some 25,000,000 ceased fighting.  Ahead lay the difficult problems of the peace and the hard struggle to bring to an end the other half of the global war, the war against Japan.  But for a few days at least a great burden was lifted for muvh of mankind. Newsweek May 14, 1945

Victory in Europe Complete;

Allies Now Turn Efforts Toward Smashing Jap War Machine

A peace that passeth all understanding came to the world this week.  It was anticlimactic, it was premature, it was confusing, it was the greatest snafu of all time-but it was wonderful.  On the 2,075th day of the biggest, costliest war in history, some 25,000,000 ceased fighting.  Ahead lay the difficult problems of the peace and the hard struggle to bring to an end the other half of the global war, the war against Japan.  But for a few days at least a great burden was lifted for muvh of mankind.

Newsweek May 14, 1945



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President Franklin D. Roosevelt Died On This Date In 1945 The pace of F.D.R’s passing was like that of his life, swift and incisive: At 1:40 p.m., April 12, 1945, the 32nd President of the United States signed a series of documents, and relaxed in his Warm Springs vacation home while an artist, Mrs. Elizabeth Shoumatoff, sketched him. At 4:35 p.m. he was dead of a cerebral hemorrage. Newsweek April 23, 1945

President Franklin D. Roosevelt Died On This Date In 1945

The pace of F.D.R’s passing was like that of his life, swift and incisive:

  • At 1:40 p.m., April 12, 1945, the 32nd President of the United States signed a series of documents, and relaxed in his Warm Springs vacation home while an artist, Mrs. Elizabeth Shoumatoff, sketched him.
  • At 4:35 p.m. he was dead of a cerebral hemorrage.

Newsweek April 23, 1945



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