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Sunday, June 5, 1927
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The Headlines
GOOD-BYE TRIBUTES PAID TO LINDBERGH; " Come Back Soon," the Flier Hears as He Sails From Cherbourg on Warship. UNVEILS A PLAQUE THERE French Air Squadron Escorts Him in Fog to Coast -- Nearly Mobbed at Final Reception. GOOD-BYE TRIBUTES PAID TO LINDBERGH
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
- John Maynard Keynes (1883)
- Federico García Lorca (1898)
- Dennis Gabor (1900)
- Pancho Villa (1878)
- Allvar Gullstrand (1862)
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
36,160 days ago
(99 years, 25 days)