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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

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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

Catchphrases of 1926

  • It girl

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)