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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.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
My Blue Heaven
Walter Donaldson
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Radio Flyer Wagon
You Share a Birthday With
- Gerhart Hauptmann (1862)
- William Herschel (1738)
- Erwin Rommel (1891)
- Georgia O'Keeffe (1887)
- Pope Nicholas V (1397)
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
35,998 days ago
(98 years, 228 days)