Paul B. Fay

Paul B. Fay, American businessman, soldier, and diplomat, 12th United States Secretary of the Navy (died 2009)

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Born: July 8, 1918
Died: September 23, 2009
Zodiac sign: Cancer
Birth year: 1918

About Paul B. Fay

Paul Burgess Fay Jr. was the Acting United States Secretary of the Navy in November 1963, and a close confidant of President John F. Kennedy. The Fay Improvement Company was sold in 1967 and Fay founded William Hutchinson & Co, an investment research firm. Paul Fay and Kennedy became close friends, and Fay worked on Kennedy's early campaigns for the U.S.

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The world when Paul B. Fay was born

Paul B. Fay was born in 1918. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1918

Best-selling book"The U.P. Trail" – Zane Grey

Headlines and milestones

Major sports momentWorld Series played in September due to WWI
Top headlineWorld War I ends — Spanish Flu pandemic begins
Technology milestoneFirst regular airmail service
World population~1.78B

United States snapshot

U.S. leaderWoodrow Wilson
U.S. population102.0M

1918 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Paul B. Fay's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure	1918	2026
Gas	$0.25	$3.45/gal
Postage stamp	$0.03	$0.73
Population	102.0M	341 million

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