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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
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
- Yuri Andropov (1914)
- Edvard Grieg (1843)
- Erik Erikson (1902)
- Herbert A. Simon (1916)
- Edward the Black Prince (1330)
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
36,880 days ago
(101 years, 15 days)