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Friday, August 26, 1927
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The Headlines
BILL TO END SLUMS WINS FINAL PASSAGE; Estimate Board Acts Speedily on Measure -- Foes Say They Will Start Court Fight. TO BE VOTED ON IN FALL Heckscher and Miss Loeb Praise Project -- Realty Men Call Proceedings Illegal. BILL TO END SLUMS WINS FINAL PASSAGE
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
- Mother Teresa (1910)
- Antoine Lavoisier (1743)
- Guillaume Apollinaire (1880)
- Robert Walpole (1676)
- Julio Cortázar (1914)
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
36,078 days ago
(98 years, 308 days)