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Monday, May 17, 1926
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The Headlines
HEAVY WINDS BUFFETED AND BUMPED NORGE; Up and Down She Went, Finding Her Course Only to Lose It in Fog as She Sought Nome. ALASKAN RADIO AT LAST GAVE THE SHIP HER BEARINGS Navigators Feared Wind Would Drive Them Into Mountains -- Prepared for Worst When Orders to Land at Teller Were Given.
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
- Edward Jenner (1749)
- Henri Barbusse (1873)
- Erik Satie (1866)
- Alfonso XIII (1886)
- Odd Hassel (1897)
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
36,545 days ago
(100 years, 45 days)