Sunday, December 07, 1941
    Top News Headlines This Week:
    Dec 7. - Japanese attack Pearl Harbor (a date that will live in infamy);   Japanese submarine sunk by USS Ward
    Dec 8. - San Francisco 1st blackout, at 6:15 PM
    Dec 10 - British battleship Prince of Wales sinks off Singapore;   Japanese troops overrun Guam
    Dec 11 - Germany & Italy declare war on US;   Japanese attack Wake Island (only failed WWII-landing)
    Dec 12 - European reservists on Java mobilizes
    Dec 13 - U-81 torpedoes British aircraft carrier Ark Royal
    Top Songs Popular in 1941
    You and I by Glenn Miller     Chattanooga Choo Choo by Glenn Miller
    Amapola by Jimmy Dorsey       I Don't Want to Set the World On Fire by Hoarce Heidt
    Daddy by Sammy Kaye     Piano Concerto in B Flat by Freddy Martin    
    There'll Be Some Changes Made    
    by Benny Goodman        		 Maria Elena by Jimmy Dorsey    
    There I Go by Vaughn Monroe     Green Eyes by Jimmy Dorsey    
    1941 Prices US President
    Bread:  $0.08/loaf Franklin D. Roosevelt
    Milk:  $0.34/gal US Vice President
    Eggs:  $0.60/doz Henry A. Wallace
    Car:  $925 Academy Award Winners
    Gas:  $0.19/gal
    Best Picture:How Green Was My Valley
     Directed By John Ford
    Best Actor:Gary Cooper
     in Sergeant York
    Best Actress:Joan Fontain
     in Suspicion
    House:  $6,954
    Stamp:<  $0.03/ea
    Avg Income:  $2,059/yr
    Min Wage:  $0.30/hr
    DOW Avg:    111
    Most Wanted New Toys in 1941
    Erector Set    Radio Flyer "Streak-O-Lite"       Raggedy Ann   
    Lionel Trains    Duncan Yo-Yo    Tinkertoy   
    Monopoly    Parker Brothers' "Sorry!"    View-Master   
    Teddy Bear    Crayola Crayons    Foto-Electric Football    
    Lincoln Logs     
    Top Books Read in 1941
    Finnegans Wake by James Joyce     Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler    
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers     Daniel Boone by James Daugherty    
    The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West     Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright    
    Native Son by Richard Wright     A Mathematician's Apology by G. H. Hardy    
    Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry     Studies in Iconology by Erwin Panofsky    
    The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck    
    Sports Headlines This Year:
    Ted Williams (Boston, AL) bats .406 with 37 homers. Whirlaway wins Kentucky Derby.
    Joe DiMaggio (NY, AL) hits 56 consectutive games,
    91 hits in a streak.    		 College Football Champion is Minnisota.
    Lefty gomez (NY, AL) pitches 15 - 5. World Series New York, AL 4 - Brooklyn, NL 1.
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