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Monday, April 2, 1928

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The Headlines

SHIPS IN DISTRESS, PLANE IS MISSING IN PACIFIC STORM; Coast Guards Hunt Machine Said to Have Plunged in the Surf on Washington Coast. TUG GETS FOOD TO SAILORS Twenty Miles of Country Under Water and Train Service Disrupted in Oregon. GALE RAGES FOR 3 DAYS Airplane Service Forced to Move Base to Vancouver When Portland Field Is Flooded. Plane Crash Reported. SHIPS IN DISTRESS IN PACIFIC STORM Search for Plane Is Fatile Ships Comparatively Safe. WILD STORMS IN ARCTIC. MacMillan, in Radio Message, Tells of "Worst Howler in Years." RESCUES 8 ICE-BOUND MEN. Ice-Breaker Gets Fisherman Marooned in Lake Erie on Rescue Tug.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Makin' Whoopee

Walter Donaldson

The must-have

Mickey Mouse Doll

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush

Flapper

bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy

Gangster

big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy

Catchphrases of 1928

  • I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream

Tech Check

Electric Razor, Penicillin & Bubble Gum.

Cost of Living (1920)

Loaf of Bread

$0.11

Gallon of Gas

$0.30

Average Home

$6,296

New Car

$575

Time Elapsed

35,859 days ago

(98 years, 89 days)