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On the date
Sunday, October 21, 1951
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The Headlines
WORK ON 4 PIERS RESUMED IN STRIKE; Threat to Picket Whole Port Brings Defiance by Ryan --Dissidents Map Strategy
Read in The New York Times →#1 at the box office
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
The must-have
Colorforms
You Share a Birthday With
- Alfred Nobel (1833)
- Benjamin Netanyahu (1949)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772)
- Ursula K. Le Guin (1929)
- Alphonse de Lamartine (1790)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
blastflickkiboshshades
Greaser
cruisin'daddy-odibsknuckle sandwichpad
Beatnik
cooldigfar outhipsquare
Tech Check
UNIVAC I (Commercial Computer), Power Steering & Video Tape Recorder (Early).
Cost of Living (1950)
Loaf of Bread
$0.14
Gallon of Gas
$0.27
Average Home
$7,354
New Car
$1,510
Time Elapsed
27,256 days ago
(74 years, 246 days)