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Wednesday, February 2, 1927

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The Headlines

CANTON ENDS NEGOTIATIONS; WILL SIGN BRITISH TREATY IF TROOPS QUIT SHANGHAI; CHEN STATES HIS POSITION He Says His Signature Now Would Amount to Duress. MORE TROOP SHIPS SAIL London Expects Government to Go Ahead With Plans to Protect Nationals. PUBLIC BACKS THE CABINET Advent of Chinese New Year Finds Great Forces Massing for Sanguinary Civil War.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

My Blue Heaven

Walter Donaldson

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 1927

  • You ain't heard nothin' yet!

Tech Check

Electronic TV (Philo Farnsworth), Jukebox (Automatic) & Iron Lung.

Cost of Living (1920)

Loaf of Bread

$0.11

Gallon of Gas

$0.30

Average Home

$6,296

New Car

$575

Time Elapsed

36,283 days ago

(99 years, 148 days)