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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

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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

Catchphrases of 1926

  • It girl

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)