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Thursday, July 12, 1917
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PRESIDENT DENOUNCES PROFITEERS; SAYS FAIR PRICES MOST PREVAIL IN WAR; ASSAILS SHIP OWNERS FOR HIGH RATES; NATION'S FATE IN BALANCE Prices Mean Efficiency or Inefficiency, Victory or Defeat. OCEAN RATES EXACTING President Asserts Marine Men Took Most Effective Means to Defeat Allies. WANTS ONE PRICE FOR ALL Public and Government Must Be Treated Alike;-Steel Men Confer with Officials. No Profits in Patriotism. Reasonable Profit Plan. Conference with Steel Men. Told of President's Plan.
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On This Day
The Bisbee Deportation occurs as vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Pablo Neruda (1904)
- Henry David Thoreau (1817)
- Amedeo Modigliani (1884)
- Buckminster Fuller (1895)
- Claude Bernard (1813)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
lousysnapshotmovies
Soldiers
over the topblightyno man's landcooties
Suffragette
deeds not wordsvotes for women
Tech Check
Modern Zipper & Drone Torpedoes.
Cost of Living (1910)
Loaf of Bread
$0.06
Gallon of Gas
$0.15
Average Home
$3,600
New Car
$950
Time Elapsed
39,775 days ago
(108 years, 355 days)