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Tuesday, June 14, 1927
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The Headlines
FLIER SPORTS IN AIR ON QUICK DASH HERE; Soars Above Press and Strain of Acclaiming Crowds, Alone in His Own Element. CITIES WATCH HIM PASS Comes In an Army Pursuit Plane When the Spirit of St. Louis Balks in Washington. FLIER SPORTS IN AIR ON QUICK DASH HERE
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
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811)
- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736)
- Karl Landsteiner (1868)
- Alois Alzheimer (1864)
- James Black (pharmacologist) (1924)
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
36,151 days ago
(99 years, 16 days)