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Tuesday, July 18, 1922
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The Headlines
OPERATORS AT WHITE HOUSE; Harding "Invites" Them to Return to Properties and Resume Mining. FEDERAL AID NOT PROMISED But Suggestion Is Construed as Meaning Troops Will Be Used if Necessary. OWNERS ACCEPTED HIS PLAN Agreed to Arbitration Proposal in Principle, but Minority Assailed Its Terms.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
My Buddy
Walter Donaldson
The must-have
Raggedy Andy
You Share a Birthday With
- Nelson Mandela (1918)
- Hendrik Lorentz (1853)
- William Makepeace Thackeray (1811)
- John Glenn (1921)
- Thomas Kuhn (1922)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush
Flapper
bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy
Gangster
big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy
Tech Check
Technicolor Films, Water Skiing & Audiometer.
Cost of Living (1920)
Loaf of Bread
$0.11
Gallon of Gas
$0.30
Average Home
$6,296
New Car
$575
Time Elapsed
37,943 days ago
(103 years, 348 days)