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Thursday, May 12, 1927
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The Headlines
EXPERTS HERE FEAR WORST; Doubt Nungesser and Coli or Their Plane Could Long Survive. HEARD IN NEWFOUNDLAND? Two Report Sound of Plane Audible Monday Morning, but St. John's Has Doubts. LOS ANGELES TO GO OUT Dirigible Will Join Government Ships and Liners in Search if Weather Is Favorable.
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
- Florence Nightingale (1820)
- Katharine Hepburn (1907)
- Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895)
- Dorothy Hodgkin (1910)
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828)
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
36,185 days ago
(99 years, 50 days)