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Monday, August 30, 1954
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The Headlines
FRANCE'S PREMIER INSISTS ASSEMBLY DECIDE ON E. D. C.; Mendes-France Makes Plea While Defending His Own Ambiguous Position MOVE ON FOR NEW TALKS Cabinet Backs Plan to Seek Revision of Pact on Same Basis as at Brussels FRANCE'S PREMIER URGES A DECISION
Read in The New York Times →#1 at the box office
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
The must-have
Play-Doh
You Share a Birthday With
- Ernest Rutherford (1871)
- Alexander Lukashenko (1954)
- Warren Buffett (1930)
- Mary Shelley (1797)
- Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
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Greaser
cruisin'daddy-odibsknuckle sandwichpad
Beatnik
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Tech Check
Transistor Radio, Solar Cell & Non-Stick Pan (Teflon).
Cost of Living (1950)
Loaf of Bread
$0.14
Gallon of Gas
$0.27
Average Home
$7,354
New Car
$1,510
Time Elapsed
26,212 days ago
(71 years, 297 days)