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Top Songs for 1954 |
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Make
Love to Me by Jo Stafford |
Sh-Boom by Crew-Cuts |
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This
Ole House by Rosemary Clooney |
Little
Things Mean a Lot by Kitty Kallen |
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Oh!
My Papa by Eddie Fisher |
Wanted by Perry Como |
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Hey
There by Rosemary Clooney |
Mr.
Sandman by Chordettes |
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I
Need You Now by Eddie Fisher |
Secret
Love by Doris Day |
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1954 Prices |
US President |
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Bread: |
$0.17/loaf |
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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Milk: |
$0.92/gal |
US Vice President |
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Eggs: |
$0.77/doz |
Richard M. Nixon |
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Car: |
$1,950 |
Academy Award Winners |
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Gas: |
$0.29/gal |
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Best Picture: |
On
The Waterfront |
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Directed
By Elia Kazan |
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Best Actor: |
Marlon
Brando |
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in
On The Waterfront |
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Best Actress: |
Grace
Kelly |
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in
The Country Girl |
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House: |
$17,500 |
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Stamp: |
$0.03/ea |
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Avg Income: |
$4,684/yr |
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Min Wage: |
$0.75/hr |
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DOW Avg: |
404 |
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On TV in 1954 |
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Make
Room for Daddy |
Dragnet |
U.S. Steel Hour |
Jackie
Gleason Show |
Lassie |
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I
Love Lucy |
This
Is Your Life |
The
Burns and Allen Show |
Omnibus |
The
Ed Sullivan Show |
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Top Books in 1954 |
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Under
the Net by Iris Murdoch |
Ideas
and Opinions by Albert Einstein |
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Science
and Civilization in China by Joseph Needham |
...And
Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold |
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Lord
of the Flies by William Golding |
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