Monday, July 4, 1927

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The Headlines

BYRD WRITES OF UTILIZING WINDS IN FOG; Found the Only Way to Avoid Going Down Into the Atlantic Was to Reach Favorable Air Currents. STAKED ALL ON WEATHER MAP IN BLIND FLIGHT Radio Value Shown When Ships Two Miles Below the Plane Were Reached Through the Mist and Bearings Obtained. BYRD SEES ATLANTIC AIR LINES IN TEN YEARS By COMMANDER RICHARD E. BYRD, U. S. N.

Best-selling Sheet Music

My Blue Heaven

Walter Donaldson

The must-have

Radio Flyer Wagon

On This Day

• First flight of the Lockheed Vega.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Calvin Coolidge (1872)
• Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804)
• Gina Lollobrigida (1927)
• Alfredo Di Stéfano (1926)

Slang

Tech Check

Electronic TV (Philo Farnsworth), Jukebox (Automatic) & Iron Lung.

Cost of Living (1920)