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On the date
Saturday, May 7, 1927
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The Headlines
BORODIN SOUNDS US ON LOAN TO HANKOW; He Denies That Moscow Helps His Government or Gives a Cent to Finance It. WANTS RECOGNITION BY US He Predicts Complete Victory, the Capture of Peking and a Prosperous China. BORODIN SOUNDS US ON LOAN TO HANKOW
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
- Rabindranath Tagore (1861)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840)
- David Hume (1711)
- Johannes Brahms (1833)
- Josip Broz Tito (1892)
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
36,189 days ago
(99 years, 54 days)