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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

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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

36,114 days ago

(98 years, 344 days)