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Wednesday, July 25, 1956
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The Headlines
Eisenhower's Four Years; An Evaluation of Administration Policy Toward Labor and the Union Leaders STUDY OF 4 YEARS UNDER EISENHOWER 'Clear It With Sidney' Taft Called It Incredible Also Called a 'Leftist' Dual Policy in Unionism Used Injunction 3 Times
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The King and I
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On This Day
Forty-five miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Elias Canetti (1905)
- Rosalind Franklin (1920)
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1922)
- Gavrilo Princip (1894)
- Arthur Balfour (1848)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
blastflickkiboshshades
Greaser
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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
25,517 days ago
(69 years, 332 days)