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Tuesday, May 3, 1927

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The Headlines

SHANGHAI AMERICANS ARE URGED TO ASK US TO JOIN ULTIMATUM; Proposed Petition Calls Upon Coolidge to Exact Reparation for Outrages and Looting. PARLEYS HELD FRUITLESS Facts Are Known, It Is Said, and Appeal Is Made to 'Keep Faith in Our Hour of Need.' NO NEW NOTE IS IN SIGHT State Department Says Early Action Will Not Be Taken on Eugene Chen's Unsatisfactory Reply. WANT US TO JOIN POWERS' ULTIMATUM

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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

36,193 days ago

(99 years, 58 days)