Wednesday, May 12, 1926

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The Headlines

The Pole Four Hours Ahead.; Polar Dirigible Sailed Forth on Her Quest With Weather Most Favorable

Best-selling Sheet Music

Black Bottom

Ray Henderson

The must-have

Radio Flyer Wagon

On This Day

• The 1926 United Kingdom general strike ends.

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• The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Florence Nightingale (1820)
• Katharine Hepburn (1907)
• Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895)
• Dorothy Hodgkin (1910)
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828)

Slang

Tech Check

Liquid Fuel Rocket, Talking Movies (Vitaphone) & Aerosol Spray Can.

Cost of Living (1920)