{"id":19064,"date":"2013-04-09T14:00:19","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=19064"},"modified":"2013-04-09T14:00:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T14:00:19","slug":"born-in-1954-the-year-donkeys-went-to-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2013\/04\/09\/born-in-1954-the-year-donkeys-went-to-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Born In 1954, Year The Donkey’s Went To War"},"content":{"rendered":"

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1954<\/strong> following more wives moving back into the workforce the economy continued to grow and consumer goods and television programmes included the popular “Father Knows Best” Marlin Brando starred in two of the most popular movies ” On The Waterfront” and “The Wild One” The Movie ” Blackboard Jungle” also featured the song ” Rock Around The Clock” from Bill Haley and the Comets, and Elvis Presley cut his first commercial record. A new trend also started called DIY Do It Yourself projects as families wanted to improve their homes and do their own maintenance . car engines continued to get bigger and more powerful and gas cost 29 cents. Following the discovery of a vaccine against Polio, the first mass vaccination of children against begins.<\/em><\/p>\n

Cost of Living 1954<\/h2>\n

How Much things cost in 1954
\nYearly Inflation Rate USA<\/strong> 0.32% <\/em>
\nYearly Inflation Rate UK<\/strong> 1.9% <\/em>
\nAverage Cost of new house $10.250.00 Cost of a gallon of Gas 22 cents Average Cost of a new car $1,700.00 Average Monthly Rent $85.00 Movie Ticket 70 cents Life Magazine 20 cents The Dow Jones recovers back to pre Wall Street Crash highs of 381.17
\nBelow are some Prices for UK guides in Pounds Sterling
\nAverage House Price 1,970<\/p>\n

Major World Political Leaders<\/h2>\n

Australia Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies Brazil President Get\u00falio Vargas Till 24 August
\nBrazil President Caf\u00e9 Filho From 24 August
\nCanada Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent<\/p>\n

China Chairman of the People’s Republic of China Mao Zedong<\/p>\n

France President Vincent Auriol Till 16 January
\nFrance President Ren\u00e9 Coty From 16 January
\nGermany Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
\nIndia Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru<\/p>\n

Italy Prime Minister Giuseppe Pella Till 12 January
\nItaly Prime Minister Amintore Fanfani From 18 January
\nItaly Prime Minister Amintore Fanfani Till 8 February
\nItaly Prime Minister Mario Scelba From 10 February
\nJapan Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida Till 10 December
\nJapan Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoyama From 10 December
\nMexico President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines Russia \/ Soviet Union
\nFirst Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev South Africa Prime Minister Daniel Fran\u00e7ois Malan Till 30 November
\nSouth Africa Prime Minister Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom From 30 November<\/p>\n

United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower United Kingdom Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1954 following more wives moving back into the workforce the economy continued to grow and consumer goods and television programmes included the popular “Father Knows Best” Marlin Brando starred in two of the most popular movies ” On The Waterfront” and “The Wild One” The Movie ” Blackboard Jungle” also featured the song ” Rock Around The Clock” from Bill Haley and the Comets, and Elvis Presley cut his first commercial record. A new trend also started called DIY Do It Yourself projects as families wanted to improve their homes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}