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Sunday, July 24, 1927
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The Headlines
AID TO JAPAN URGED AT PACIFIC PARLEY; Stanford Professor Believes Lower Tariff Here Would Help Solve Overpopulation Problem. WOULD GIVE JOBLESS WORK Dr. Nasu Asks If One People Should Hold Sparsely Settled Land While Another Is Crowded.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
My Blue Heaven
Walter Donaldson
The must-have
Radio Flyer Wagon
On This Day
The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Simón Bolívar (1783)
- Alexandre Dumas (1802)
- Amelia Earhart (1897)
- Henrik Pontoppidan (1857)
- Robert Graves (1895)
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
36,111 days ago
(98 years, 341 days)