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Wednesday, September 14, 1927
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The Headlines
OLD GLORY YIELDS LITTLE HOPE FLIERS SURVIVED THE CRASH; Searching Ship Finds 34 Feet of the Wing Torn From the Rest of the Plane. THREE TANKS SALVAGED But 900-Gallon Fuel Compartment Is Missing -- May Have Broken Ship in Two. FLAG ON SIDE IS VISIBLE Parts of Lettering Also Discernible on Wreckage -- Vessel to Continue Hunt in Atlantic.
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
- Alexander von Humboldt (1769)
- Francisco de Quevedo (1580)
- Margaret Sanger (1879)
- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486)
- al-Ma'mun (768)
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
36,060 days ago
(98 years, 290 days)