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Thursday, January 12, 1956
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The Headlines
GEROSA TAX PLAN PERILS STATE AID SOUGHT BY MAYOR; Controller Says He Can Add $15,000,000 Sales Levies if Staff Is Increased WOULD END CAR STAMPS Wagner Wants to Drop Them Too, but Only in 'Trade' for Added Albany Funds $1,700,000 Net Rise FISCAL STRATEGY OF MAYOR UPSET
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Guys and Dolls †
The must-have
Yahtzee
You Share a Birthday With
- Jack London (1876)
- Swami Vivekananda (1863)
- Haruki Murakami (1949)
- Edmund Burke (1729)
- Hermann Göring (1893)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
blastflickkiboshshades
Greaser
cruisin'daddy-odibsknuckle sandwichpad
Beatnik
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Tech Check
Hard Disk Drive (IBM 305), Videotape & Transatlantic Telephone Cable.
Cost of Living (1950)
Loaf of Bread
$0.14
Gallon of Gas
$0.27
Average Home
$7,354
New Car
$1,510
Time Elapsed
25,712 days ago
(70 years, 162 days)