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On the date
Tuesday, June 28, 1927
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The Headlines
HOLDS CITY PAID FOR FARE RISE PUBLICITY; Untermyer Sees $212,954 Given to Ivy Lee as Unfair Charge on Municipality. SUM CHARGED TO OPERATION Witness Defends His Work -- Engineer Submits Data on Valuation. HOLDS CITY PAID FOR FARE RISE PUBLICITY
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
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712)
- Peter Paul Rubens (1577)
- Luigi Pirandello (1867)
- Henry VIII (1491)
- Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906)
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
36,137 days ago
(99 years, 2 days)