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Friday, June 5, 1925
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The Headlines
GIVES PLAN TO NAVY TO HUNT AMUNDSEN; Capt. Lansdowne of the Shenandoah Would Use Spitzbergen as Base for the Dirigible. WOULD SEND PATOKA THERE Airship Would Stop in England to Refuel on the Way -- Favors Flights Over the Ice Fields.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Yes Sir, That's My Baby
Walter Donaldson
The must-have
Radio Flyer Wagon
You Share a Birthday With
- John Maynard Keynes (1883)
- Federico García Lorca (1898)
- Dennis Gabor (1900)
- Pancho Villa (1878)
- Allvar Gullstrand (1862)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush
Flapper
bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy
Gangster
big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy
Tech Check
Mechanical Television, The Leica I & Masking Tape.
Cost of Living (1920)
Loaf of Bread
$0.11
Gallon of Gas
$0.30
Average Home
$6,296
New Car
$575
Time Elapsed
36,890 days ago
(101 years, 25 days)