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Tuesday, December 21, 1926
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The Headlines
30 DROWN IN ICY HUDSON, 30 SAVED AS LAUNCH UPSETS; CAPTAIN HELD FOR HOMICIDE; SURVIVORS CLING TO FLOES Workmen, Trapped in the Cabin, Are Carried Upstream in Wreck. POLICE BLAME OVERLOADING Job Hunters for Edgewater Plant Crowded Aboard a 42-Foot Launch. TRAGEDY AT 6:30 A.M. Rescuers, Smashing Their Way Through Ice, Are Delayed by the Darkness. 30 DROWN IN HUDSON AS LAUNCH UPSETS
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
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804)
- Heinrich Böll (1917)
- Kurt Waldheim (1918)
- Masaccio (1401)
- Leopold von Ranke (1795)
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
36,326 days ago
(99 years, 191 days)