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Tuesday, November 22, 1927
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The Headlines
UNTERMYER STATES HIS CASE FOR THE 5-CENT SUBWAY FARE; How He Would Continue It, With Fairness to Car Rider, City and Companies. FINDS 3 POINTS AT ISSUE Adequacy of Fare, Recapture, Effect of Latter on Public Needs -- and Deals With Each. IS READY TO ARBITRATE If B.M.T., Now Opposing Purchase Without Trolleys, and Refusing to Set Price, Will Accept Result. UNTERMYER STATES 5-CENT FARE CASE
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
- Charles de Gaulle (1890)
- André Gide (1869)
- George Eliot (1819)
- Abigail Adams (1744)
- Louis Néel (1904)
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
35,991 days ago
(98 years, 221 days)