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Friday, April 22, 1927
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The Headlines
SOUTH IN TERROR AS FLOOD SWEEPS ON TOWARD THE GULF; New Orleans Prepares Feverishly for Crisis of Ever-Spreading Waters. BIG LEVEES ARE GIVING WAY 7,500 Square Miles Along Mississippi Valley Now Submerged or Exposed to Disaster. HOMELESS TOTAL 60,000 Boats Rushed to Rescue of Hundreds Marooned -- Eighteen Reported Lost in Sinking of Launch.
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
36,205 days ago
(99 years, 70 days)