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Monday, June 15, 1925

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The Headlines

D. GUGGENHEIM GIVES $500,000 TO N.Y.U. TO FOUND AIR SCHOOL; Says He Wants Aeronautics Developed Commercially Like Railroading. TO BE ENGINEERING BRANCH Sees Its Great Future in Promotion of Arts of Peace Rather Than War. ACCEPTED BY CHANCELLOR Donor's Family Long Engaged With Exploration Beneath the Earth, He Adds Aviation. GIVES $500,000 FOR N.Y.U. AIR SCHOOL

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Yes Sir, That's My Baby

Walter Donaldson

The must-have

Radio Flyer Wagon

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush

Flapper

bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy

Gangster

big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy

Catchphrases of 1925

  • The business of America is business

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

36,880 days ago

(101 years, 15 days)