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Saturday, June 18, 1927
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The Headlines
CONCERN USING NAME 'LINDBERG' UNDER FIRE; Inquiry Made as Flier Disavows Any Connection With New Ohio Aviation Corporation. ONE ORGANIZER A FIREMAN Salesman in Delaware Tells of Plan to Sell From $10,000,000 to $100,000,000 Stock.
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
- Ivan Goncharov (1812)
- Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1845)
- Georgi Dimitrov (1882)
- Miklós Horthy (1868)
- Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (1901)
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
36,148 days ago
(99 years, 13 days)