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"About 90 percent of everything we buy will travel on ships"

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Y7jPP TIL on May 16, 1957, Yankees stars Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, and Yogi Berra attended a birthday party for Billy Martin at NYC’s Copacabana. A fight broke out when intoxicated bowlers yelled racial slurs at Sammy Davis Jr. One bowler, a Bronx deli owner, suffered a concussion and a broken jaw.
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