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Wednesday, February 16, 1927
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The Headlines
NO HOUSING CRISIS, LANDLORDS DECLARE; Plenty of Vacant Apartments at Moderate Prices in All Boroughs, They Say. HARRIS SEES HEALTH PERIL Tells Board of Overcrowding in Flats and Urges Extension of Emergency Rent Laws. NO HOUSING CRISIS, LANDLORDS DECLARE
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
My Blue Heaven
Walter Donaldson
The must-have
Radio Flyer Wagon
You Share a Birthday With
- Octave Mirbeau (1848)
- Ernst Haeckel (1834)
- Philip Melanchthon (1497)
- Francis Galton (1822)
- Radoje Domanović (1873)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush
Flapper
bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy
Gangster
big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy
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
36,269 days ago
(99 years, 134 days)