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Tuesday, May 10, 1927
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The Headlines
UNENDING VIGIL KEPT FOR AIR ARGONAUTS; Searchlights Sweep Sky Over Bay and Planes and Boats Await Call During Night. THRONGS WATCH ALL DAY Line Battery Wall, Anxiously Peering Into Fog as Fleet of Welcoming Craft Puts Out. UNENDING VIGIL KEPT FOR AIR ARGONAUTS
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
- Fred Astaire (1899)
- Heydar Aliyev (1923)
- Gustav Stresemann (1878)
- Karl Barth (1886)
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788)
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
36,186 days ago
(99 years, 51 days)