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Tuesday, April 13, 1926
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The Headlines
NORGE IS EXPECTED TO LEAVE ENGLAND TONIGHT FOR NORWAY; Amundsen Airship Needs Only Gas and Fuel After Flight From Italy. NOBILE ANXIOUS TO GO ON He Wants to Get to Oslo and Then Press On to Hangar at Leningrad. AIRSHIP FACES HARD TEST Pulham to Spitzbergen Is Believed to Be the Worst Part of the Journey to the Pole. NORGE MAY LEAVE TONIGHT FOR NORWAY
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Black Bottom
Ray Henderson
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
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
36,579 days ago
(100 years, 79 days)