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Tuesday, March 27, 1956
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The Headlines
Soviet Offers to Scuttle 79 Craft And Buy 31 to Settle Lend-Lease; SOVIET SET TO SINK LEND-LEASE CRAFT No Price Mentioned
Read in The New York Times →#1 at the box office
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The must-have
Yahtzee
You Share a Birthday With
- Wilhelm Röntgen (1845)
- Mariano Rajoy (1955)
- James Callaghan (1912)
- Gloria Swanson (1899)
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886)
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
25,637 days ago
(70 years, 87 days)