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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

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Best-selling Sheet Music

My Blue Heaven

Walter Donaldson

The must-have

Radio Flyer Wagon

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush

Flapper

bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy

Gangster

big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy

Catchphrases of 1927

  • You ain't heard nothin' yet!

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)