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Friday, September 30, 1927
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The Headlines
GOVERNMENT CURBED ON ALCOHOL POLICY; Manufacturers Need Not Prove to Whom They Sell Finished Product, Court Rules. FAR-REACHING EFFECT SEEN Dry Men Had Employed That Method to Trace Ultimate User -- 'Tyranny' Viewed as Ended. CURBS GOVERNMENT ON ALCOHOL POLICY
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
- Rumi (1207)
- Truman Capote (1924)
- Jean Perrin (1870)
- Pope Nicholas IV (1227)
- Deborah Kerr (1921)
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
36,043 days ago
(98 years, 273 days)