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Sunday, December 18, 1927
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The Headlines
LINDBERGH AND PEACE HAILED BY MEXICANS; CALLES EXALTS FLIER; Fifty Thousand Join in Huge Demonstration at Stadium in American's Honor. PRESIDENT ESCORTS HIM And Proclaims Another Holiday -- 6,000 School Children Entertain Nation's Guest. CALLES FLIGHT TUESDAY American Airman Will Be the First to Take Republic's President Into the Air.
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
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Willy Brandt (1913)
- J. J. Thomson (1856)
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (1863)
- Paul Klee (1879)
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
35,964 days ago
(98 years, 194 days)