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Friday, November 25, 1927
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The Headlines
BERRY DEFIES EDICT OF ESTIMATE BOARD ON TRANSIT BONDS; Refuses to Sell $52,000,000 Issue by Dec. 31 in City's Move to Keep 5-Cent Fare. SEES INDEFENSIBLE WASTE Says Proposal Would Lead to the Disruption of the Entire Financial Machinery. AFFIDAVIT GOES TO COURT Submitted by Controller's Counsel in Citizens Union's Fight on $13,000 Budget Item. BERRY DEFIES EDICT OF ESTIMATE BOARD
Read in The New York Times →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
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
35,987 days ago
(98 years, 217 days)