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Wednesday, June 1, 1927

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The Headlines

FLIER GETS BRITISH CROSS; King and Queen Then Chat Informally With Him About Flight. BABY PRINCESS GREETS HIM He Meets the Prince of Wales and Baldwin and Is Honored by Commons and Aero Clubs. ACCLAIMED AT DERBY BALL Arriving With Prince of Wales, Lindbergh Is Cheered and the Band Plays 'Yankee Doodle.'

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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

36,164 days ago

(99 years, 29 days)