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Saturday, May 8, 1926
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The Headlines
PUBLIC NOT WITH STRIKERS; People Who Are Usually Sympathetic With Labor Show Apathy. HARD TO PREDICT THE END Length of the Struggle May Be Determined by Exhaustion of Strike Benefit Fund. TRIP FROM PARIS AN ORDEAL Passport Inspection Tightened -- Railway Journey to London One of Caution. BRITISH PUBLIC NOT WITH STRIKERS
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
36,554 days ago
(100 years, 54 days)