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Thursday, August 28, 1919

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The Headlines

URGES UNIFICATION OF THE RAILROADS; Anderson Proposes the Operation of All Lines Through aSingle Corporation.IS AGAINST PLUMB PLANBut Tells House Committee That Owners, Workers, and Public Should Be Represented. New Status for Labor. URGES UNIFICATION OF THE RAILROADS Opposes Plumb Plan. Would Make Strikes Illegal. Calls Warfield Plan Hopeless. Charter with Broad Powers. Would Divide Surplus.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles

John Kellette

The must-have

Lincoln Logs

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

lousysnapshotmovies

Soldiers

over the topblightyno man's landcooties

Suffragette

deeds not wordsvotes for women

Catchphrases of 1919

  • The Red Scare

Tech Check

Pop-Up Toaster, Shortwave Radio & Arc Welding.

Cost of Living (1910)

Loaf of Bread

$0.06

Gallon of Gas

$0.15

Average Home

$3,600

New Car

$950

Time Elapsed

38,998 days ago

(106 years, 308 days)