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Wednesday, August 24, 1927
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The Headlines
40 HURT IN LONDON IN SACCO OUTBREAK; Police, Charging Crowd in Hyde Park, Are Attacked With Sticks and Bricks. AMERICAN BOYCOTT URGED Independent Labor Party Flies Red Flag at Half-Mast at Westminster Offices. 40 HURT IN LONDON IN SACCO OUTBREAK
Read in The New York Times →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
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
36,081 days ago
(98 years, 311 days)