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Monday, April 5, 1926
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The Headlines
THYSSEN DEAD AT 84; LEAVES $100,000,000; Amassed Huge Fortune as a Pioneer in the German Iron and Steel Industry. REFUSED KAISER'S MEDAL He Opposed War and Recouped War Losses by Converting Gun Plants to Peace Uses. THYSSEN DEAD AT 84; LEAVES $100,000,000
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Black Bottom
Ray Henderson
The must-have
Radio Flyer Wagon
You Share a Birthday With
- Thomas Hobbes (1588)
- Bette Davis (1908)
- Gregory Peck (1916)
- Pope Urban VIII (1568)
- Spencer Tracy (1900)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush
Flapper
bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy
Gangster
big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy
Tech Check
Liquid Fuel Rocket, Talking Movies (Vitaphone) & Aerosol Spray Can.
Cost of Living (1920)
Loaf of Bread
$0.11
Gallon of Gas
$0.30
Average Home
$6,296
New Car
$575
Time Elapsed
36,586 days ago
(100 years, 86 days)