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On the date
Saturday, October 29, 1927
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The Headlines
Lights in Subway to Replace Green and Black Guide Lines
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
- Joseph Goebbels (1897)
- Franz von Papen (1879)
- Jean Giraudoux (1882)
- Baruj Benacerraf (1920)
- Necmettin Erbakan (1926)
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
36,014 days ago
(98 years, 244 days)