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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 VICTORY FOR DEMOCRATS Decision May Be Rescinded on a Fuller Vote -- Fight Over the 1927 Income Fails to Occur.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

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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

35,970 days ago

(98 years, 200 days)