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Friday, September 5, 1952
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The Headlines
EISENHOWER GIVES 10 POINTS FOR PEACE TO AVERT 'KOREAS'; CHARGES 'BUNGLING' HAS LED US CLOSE TO WORLD WAR III; 350,000 HAIL HIM General in Philadelphia -- Would Spur Freedom by 'Peaceful Means' NO ISOLATIONISM, HE SAYS Blunders of the Administration Brought Far East Fighting, Candidate Declares EISENHOWER GIVES 10 POINTS FOR PEACE
Read in The New York Times →#1 at the box office
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You Share a Birthday With
- Louis XIV (1638)
- Freddie Mercury (1946)
- Caspar David Friedrich (1774)
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888)
- Michael Keaton (1951)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
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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
26,936 days ago
(73 years, 291 days)