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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

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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

35,987 days ago

(98 years, 217 days)