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May 31, 1959

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Glen Oaks Project And Windsor Homes Sold for 55 Million; QUEENS PROJECTS BRING 55 MILLION

By Unknown Author

sold by Gross-Morton Co to A Cohen and A Gross

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WARD SETS AUTO RECORD; 500-MILE WINNER AVERAGES 135.857

By Frank M. Blunk

INDIANAPOLIS, May 30 -A record crowd of 200,000 saw Rodger Ward of Indianapolis win the forty-third 500-mile auto race today in a Leader Card Special. He set a race record of 135.857 miles per hour, eclipsing the mark of 135.601 set by Sam Hanks in 1957.

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YANKS WIN TWO;; SENATORS ROUTED

By John Drebinger

WASHINGTON, May 30 -Harmon Killebrew, the 22-year-old slugger from Payette, Idaho, whose sensational clouting suddenly has made him the man of the hour in the nation's capital, hit his eighteenth home run today.

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FARM EQUIPMENT GAINS WITH CROPS; Huge Harvests Spur Sales and Earnings -- Share Prices Also Climb

By Richard Rutter

The farm equipment industry is reaping a rich harvest this spring. Sales and earnings have been soaring as a result of past and anticipated future record crops.

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WALTZ, 10-1, FIRST IN JERSEY STAKES; Scotland Next, 11 Lengths Behind, in $58,800 Test -Dunce, Arcaro Up, 5th

By the Associated Press

CAMDEN, N. J., May 30 -- W. Arnold Hanger's Waltz waltzed to an eleven-length victory in the eighteenth and final running of the Jersey Stakes at Garden State Park today.

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1959Andrea de Cesaris, Italian race car driver (died 2014)^[†]

Andrea de Cesaris was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1980 to 1994.

1959Phil Wilson, English politician^[†]

Philip Wilson, Baron Wilson of Sedgefield, is a British Labour Party politician. He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield in a 2007 by-election that followed the resignation of Tony Blair, former Prime Minister, from Parliament. He lost the seat at the 2019 general election to Paul Howell of the Conservative Party.

Historical Context for May 31, 1959

In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people^[†]

Headlines from May 31, 1959

Glen Oaks Project And Windsor Homes Sold for 55 Million; QUEENS PROJECTS BRING 55 MILLION

WARD SETS AUTO RECORD; 500-MILE WINNER AVERAGES 135.857

YANKS WIN TWO;; SENATORS ROUTED

FARM EQUIPMENT GAINS WITH CROPS; Huge Harvests Spur Sales and Earnings -- Share Prices Also Climb

WALTZ, 10-1, FIRST IN JERSEY STAKES; Scotland Next, 11 Lengths Behind, in $58,800 Test -Dunce, Arcaro Up, 5th

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