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Friday, May 13, 1927
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The Headlines
LINDBERGH ARRIVES AFTER RECORD HOPS; Air Mail Pilot Sets the Fastest Time of 21 Hours 20 Minutes From the Pacific Coast. FLEW 2,550 MILES ALONE With Aid of Compasses Only -Curtiss Field Crowds Cheer Daring Youth as He Lands. AIRPLANES AND PILOTS WHO ARE NEARLY READY FOR TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHTS. LINDBERGH ARRIVES AFTER RECORD HOPS
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
- Pope Pius IX (1792)
- Alphonse Daudet (1840)
- Maria Theresa (1717)
- Ronald Ross (1857)
- Georges Braque (1882)
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
36,183 days ago
(99 years, 48 days)