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Thursday, June 2, 1927
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The Headlines
SEES HIS FIRST BIG RACE; But Low-Flying Airplanes Interest Lindbergh More Than Horses. DINED BY AMERICANS Officials Prominent in British Aeronautics Pay Tributes to His Feat. STARTS FOR PARIS TODAY Will Be Private Guest of Herrick There Until the Memphis Starts Home.
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 X (1835)
- Thomas Hardy (1840)
- Marquis de Sade (1740)
- Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1857)
- Pope Leo XI (1535)
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
36,164 days ago
(99 years, 29 days)