Monday, May 25, 1953

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The Headlines

Chrysler and Graybar Buildings Being Acquired by Webb & Knapp; DEAL IS ON TO BUY CHRYSLER BUILDING

#1 at the box office

The must-have

Matchbox Cars

On This Day

• Nuclear weapons testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.

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• The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803)
• Pieter Zeeman (1865)
• Ian McKellen (1939)
• Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803)
• Igor Sikorsky (1889)

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Tech Check

Color TV Standards (NTSC), Black Box Flight Recorder & WD-40.

Cost of Living (1950)