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Wednesday, April 20, 1927
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The Headlines
HANKOW REDS DECLARE WAR ON CHIANG AND HIS REGIME; ORDER ATTACK ON NANKING; FENG NEW RED COMMANDER But 'Christian General' Is Cut Off From Hankow by Northerners. CHIANG OUTLINES PROGRAM Promises to Restore Principles of Sun Yat-sen, to Oust Reds and Attack Peking. BUT TALK OF DEAL PERSISTS Shanghai Hears He and Northern War Lords Have Agreed -- Fighting Near Pukow.
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
- Adolf Hitler (1889)
- Napoleon III (1808)
- Joan Miró (1893)
- Harold Lloyd (1893)
- K. Alex Müller (1927)
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
36,206 days ago
(99 years, 71 days)