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Saturday, January 31, 1953
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The Headlines
EX-JUDGE POSITIVE; Testifies He Compelled Contractor to Return $81,500 Rickard Paid SAYS DEAL WAS IN CASH Crime Board Fails to Recall Stevedore to Repeat Denial of Shakedown Story EX-JUDGE AFFIRMS EXTORTION CHARGE
Read in The New York Times →#1 at the box office
The Bad and the Beautiful
The must-have
Matchbox Cars
On This Day
A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Franz Schubert (1797)
- Kenzaburō Ōe (1935)
- Beatrix of the Netherlands (1938)
- Norman Mailer (1923)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
blastflickkiboshshades
Greaser
cruisin'daddy-odibsknuckle sandwichpad
Beatnik
cooldigfar outhipsquare
Tech Check
Color TV Standards (NTSC), Black Box Flight Recorder & WD-40.
Cost of Living (1950)
Loaf of Bread
$0.14
Gallon of Gas
$0.27
Average Home
$7,354
New Car
$1,510
Time Elapsed
26,789 days ago
(73 years, 144 days)