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Monday, May 2, 1921
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The Headlines
DRASTIC REVISION OF FEDERAL TAXES URGED BY MELLON; Wants Congress to Substitute Flat Levy on Corporations for Excess Profits Impost. WOULD MODIFY INCOME TAX Favors Dropping Luxury and "Nuisance" Taxes, But Keeping Transportation Taxes.OPPOSES SALES TAX NOWSecretary Says Nation Cannot Continue to Expend at "Shocking Rate" of $5,000,000,000 a Year.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
The Sheik of Araby
Harry B. Smith & Ted Snyder
The must-have
Raggedy Andy
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush
Flapper
bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy
Gangster
big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy
Tech Check
Robots (The Term 'Robot'), Polygraph (Modern) & Insulin (Medical Tech).
Cost of Living (1920)
Loaf of Bread
$0.11
Gallon of Gas
$0.30
Average Home
$6,296
New Car
$575
Meanwhile
- Post-WWI Recession — Severe deflation and collapse of agricultural prices.
Time Elapsed
38,385 days ago
(105 years, 60 days)