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On the date
Tuesday, December 13, 1927
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The Headlines
HOUSE CUTS TAXES $24,000,000 MORE; Reduction Benefiting Smaller Corporations Adopted, 136 to 132, in Committee of Whole. VICTORY FOR DEMOCRATS Decision May Be Rescinded on a Fuller Vote -- Fight Over the 1927 Income Fails to Occur. HOUSE CUTS TAXES $24,000,000 MORE
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
35,970 days ago
(98 years, 200 days)