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Thursday, April 15, 1926
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The Headlines
CHIEF DUBIOUS ON WINE; Tells Senators He Doubts if Any Can Be Made Non-Intoxicating. STILLS TOTAL 1,720,000 Estimate for the Entire Nation Is Based on 172,000 Seizures Last Year. BOOTLEG PROFITS BARED Custodian of Captured Devices Describes Easy Methods of Liquor Production. Andrews Says Probably Only One Still Out of Every Ten Operation Is Seized Boston Physicians Declare Alcoholism There Has Increased Under Dry Law
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
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- Leonhard Euler (1707)
- Nikita Khrushchev (1894)
- Kim Il Sung (1912)
- Émile Durkheim (1858)
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
36,577 days ago
(100 years, 77 days)