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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.
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
- Giacomo Puccini (1858)
- Jean Racine (1639)
- Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887)
- Diocletian (244)
- Guru Gobind Singh (1666)
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
35,961 days ago
(98 years, 191 days)