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Thursday, December 22, 1927

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The Headlines

DIVERS GET AIR INTO TORPEDO ROOM OF S-4; DESPERATE EFFORTS WIN, BUT HOPE IS SLIM; SIGNALS TAPPED ON THE HULL NOW UNANSWERED; SUBMARINE LOST FOR HOURS Again Found, Officers Put Divers to Work by Relays to Attach Hose. FIXED TO LISTENING TUBE Fresh Air Is Forced In and Pressure Then Lessened to Remove Fetid Air. WORK WILL GO ON ALL NIGHT But Few of Those at the Scene Now Believe Any of the Submarine's Crew Are Alive.

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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

35,961 days ago

(98 years, 191 days)