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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
Read in The New York Times →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
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)