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Wednesday, May 19, 1926
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The Headlines
KRESGE AIDS CHARITY BY $23,000,000 GIFT; Announces Huge Addition to $2,000,000 Fund, Itself Never Made Public. FOR WIDE WELFARE WORK Foundation to Get 500,000 Shares of Stock -- Bond Issue Novel Feature of Plans. KRESGE AIDS CHARITY BY $23,000,000 GIFT
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
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881)
- Ho Chi Minh (1890)
- Malcolm X (1925)
- Pol Pot (1925)
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762)
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
36,542 days ago
(100 years, 42 days)