July 6, 1951
The federal minimum wage stood at $0.75/hr that summer of 1951, and the Dow Jones sat at 269 — the Korean War ceasefire negotiations were underway, with the U.S. and Soviet-backed North Korea working through the United Nations toward a military truce that held the attention of the country all season long. At the movies, Mario Lanza was packing theaters in "The Great Caruso," while on the radio Nat "King" Cole's "Too Young" sat at the top of the charts for weeks. On June 14, the U.S. Census Bureau formally dedicated UNIVAC I, the first commercially produced electronic computer in the United States, marking a concrete turning point in how large-scale data processing would work going forward.
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Magazine Covers — July 6, 1951
NY Times Headlines — Week of July 6, 1951
San Francisco Set For Signing Treaty With The Japanese; Meeting Of Belligerents Early In September Expected To Accept Present Draft Truman Due To Attend Soviet And Its Satellites May Be Absent--Pact Provides 'Peace Of Reconciliation' Soviet Bloc May Be Absent San Francisco Set For Signing Treaty San Francisco Makes Plans Soviet Views Of Treaty Given
Retail Groups Ask Federal Sales Tax To Balance Budget; Price Rises Caused By Deficit Financing Would Cost Public 'Far More,' Spokesmen Say But Senators Disagree While Committee Is Hostile To Consumer Levy, Backing For It Grows In Congress Conditional Support Given Retailer Groups Urge Sales Tax, But Senate Committee Is Hostile
Europes Defense Built Up By E.C.A.; Peak Postwar Industrial Output Noted By Foster--Senators To View Allies' Progress Europe'S Defense Built Up By E.C.A. Fund Allotted For Supplies Briefed On Iranian Crisis
German War'S End Sought By Truman; President, Asking Congress To Act, Preserves Right To Take Property To Settle Claims
$875,000 Bail Asked For Indicted Reds; Court To Act Today On Saypol Plea To Void $171,000 Put Up By Civil Rights Congress
World Events — July 1951
Time Person of the Year — 1951
On the radio
Billboard Charts — July 6, 1951
On the bookshelf
On the television
Nielsen Top 10 — 1950–51 Season
At the movies
Box Office & Oscar Winners — July 6, 1951
On the field
Sports Champions — July 6, 1951
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