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Friday, March 18, 1927

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The Headlines

REED SAYS SAPIRO AIMED TO CONTROL WORLD WHEAT CROP; Ford Counsel in Libel Suit Assails Plaintiff's Motives in Farm Cooperatives. SENATOR LISTS BIG FEES Cites $90,000, $75,000, $30,000 as Among Sums Farmers Paid to the Attorney. TOBACCO PLAN ATTACKED Kentucky Warehouses Sold to the Growers at $2,000,000 Excess Price, Defense Charges. SAYS SAPIRO AIMED TO CONTROL CROPS

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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

36,239 days ago

(99 years, 104 days)