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Friday, July 25, 1952
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The Headlines
MILL OPENING SPED; Union and Industry End Dispute After Truman Says: Agree, 'Or Else' $5.20 RISE A TON SET 16-Cent Increase in Pay and Modified Union Shop Are Provided Steel Strike Settled With Wage and Price Increases
Read in The New York Times →#1 at the box office
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You Share a Birthday With
- Elias Canetti (1905)
- Rosalind Franklin (1920)
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1922)
- Gavrilo Princip (1894)
- Arthur Balfour (1848)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
blastflickkiboshshades
Greaser
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Beatnik
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Tech Check
Barcode (Patent), Passenger Jet (Comet) & Hydrogen Bomb.
Cost of Living (1950)
Loaf of Bread
$0.14
Gallon of Gas
$0.27
Average Home
$7,354
New Car
$1,510
Time Elapsed
26,978 days ago
(73 years, 333 days)