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Friday, March 11, 1927

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The Headlines

MOVE TO AMEND OIL LAW STARTS IN MEXICO CITY AS MEANS OF APPEASING US; FOLLOWS TELLEZ RETURN Extra Congress Session to Initiate Changes Is Favored by Some. OFFICIALS ARE OPTIMISTIC Government's Apparent Desire to Aid Companies Is Taken as Promise of Relaxation. GALLIVAN ASSAILS ELIAS Says He and Tellez Spent Here $2,000,000 for Propaganda -- Borah Defies Oil Men.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

My Blue Heaven

Walter Donaldson

The must-have

Radio Flyer Wagon

On This Day

  • In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.

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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

36,246 days ago

(99 years, 111 days)