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Tuesday, November 15, 1927

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The Headlines

21 KILLED IN GAS TANK EXPLOSION AT PITTSBURGH; 600 HURT, 13 MISSING; RUINS DYNAMITED IN HUNT FOR BODIES; BLAST WRECKS MILE AREA Tenements and Factories Shattered -- City Hit as by Earthquake. INJURED SCREAM IN PANIC Women and Children, Cut by Debris, Mill in Streets -- Hospitals Are Quickly Filled. POLICE GUARD AT MORGUE Huge Tank of 5,000,000 Cubic Feet Capacity Believed Ignited by Repair Men's Torches. WHERE MANY WERE KILLED AND INJURED IN GAS TANK EXPLOSION IN PITTSBURGH.

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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

Catchphrases of 1927

  • You ain't heard nothin' yet!

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

35,998 days ago

(98 years, 228 days)