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Saturday, April 25, 1953
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The Headlines
EISENHOWER URGES 'PROMPT' APPROVAL FOR OFFSHORE BILL; ' Deeply Concerned With Delay in Administration Program,' Letter to Anderson Says MORSE HOLDS THE FLOOR Sets Records for Continuous Speech, Prolonging Session Hours Past Midnight EISENHOWER ASKS OIL BILL PASSAGE
Read in The New York Times →#1 at the box office
House of Wax
The must-have
Matchbox Cars
On This Day
Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Al Pacino (1940)
- Guglielmo Marconi (1874)
- Johan Cruyff (1947)
- Oliver Cromwell (1599)
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900)
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
26,705 days ago
(73 years, 60 days)