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Friday, July 8, 1927
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The Headlines
NEW CRUISER OFFER, 18 OF 10,000 TONS, MADE BY AMERICANS; Gibson Compromise Calls for a Total of 400,000 Tons, Rest in Craft of 7,500 and Less. JAPANESE BOOST DEMANDS Saito Asks for 70,000 Tons in Submarines and Increase in Cruiser-Destroyer Total. PARLEY HANGS IN BALANCE Its Fate Will Probably Be Decided at Today's Meeting of the Executive Committee. NEW CRUISER OFFER MADE BY AMERICANS
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 de La Fontaine (1621)
- John D. Rockefeller (1839)
- Pyotr Kapitsa (1894)
- Igor Tamm (1895)
- Nelson Rockefeller (1908)
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
36,128 days ago
(98 years, 358 days)