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Thursday, July 21, 1927
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The Headlines
FIGHT TICKET GOUGE DUE TO COMMISSION, ONE MEMBER SAYS; The Arbitrary Fixing of Price Plays Into the Speculators' Hands, Brower Charges. BOARD GOT 594 TICKETS Of These the Commissioners Bought Only 460 -- Tuttle Presses His Inquiry. 3 SPECULATORS ARRESTED Box-Office Man at Garden Testifies He Sent Tickets to Agencies and Received Gratuities. FIGHT TICKET GOUGE LAID TO COMMISSION
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
- Rudolph A. Marcus (1923)
- Don Knotts (1924)
- Norman Jewison (1926)
- Karel Reisz (1926)
- Constant Nieuwenhuys (1920)
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
36,114 days ago
(98 years, 344 days)