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Thursday, May 10, 1956
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The Headlines
Foreign Intervention in Algeria Is Rebels' Aim, French Charge; Lacoste Lays Terror Campaign to Bid for World Pressure-- Guerrilla Raids Spread yt-1950-12-20.xmlyt-1956-11-07.xmlyt-1951-01-11.xmlyt-1951-01-11.xmlyt-1950-12-17.xmlyt-1951-01-11.xmlyt-1950-09-30.xmlFRENCH SEE RAIDS AS ALGERIAN PLOT Force of 380,000 in Sight
Read in The New York Times →#1 at the box office
The Revolt of Mamie Stover
The must-have
Yahtzee
You Share a Birthday With
- Fred Astaire (1899)
- Heydar Aliyev (1923)
- Gustav Stresemann (1878)
- Karl Barth (1886)
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
blastflickkiboshshades
Greaser
cruisin'daddy-odibsknuckle sandwichpad
Beatnik
cooldigfar outhipsquare
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
25,593 days ago
(70 years, 43 days)