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Monday, July 2, 1956
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The Headlines
ALL 128 ON 2 AIRLINERS FOUND DEAD; CRAFT PRESUMED TO HAVE COLLIDED BEFORE CRASHING IN GRAND CANYON; 'COPTER AT SCENE Plans Are Laid to Fly Out Victims' Bodies --Inquiry Starts To Fly In Again Today Two Black Blotches Mark the Canyon Spots Where Planes Carried 128 to Death ALL 128 ARE DEAD ON TWO AIRLINERS 'We Are Going ...'
Read in The New York Times →#1 at the box office
Trapeze
The must-have
Yahtzee
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
25,541 days ago
(69 years, 356 days)