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Saturday, June 16, 1928

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The Headlines

TWO ICEBREAKERS NOW ARE NEARING ITALIA CAST AWAYS; The Braganza Joins the Hobby and Both Are in Sight of North Cape. WIND AIDS THEIR PROGRESS But Fog Again Balks Larsen and Holm Planes After Take-Off From Hobby. OTHER RESCUERS ARRIVING Planes of Four Nations Are Speeding to Spitsbergen--Malmgren Trio Not Yet Found. Nobile Floe Drifting Eastward Equipment All Ready. Amundsen Will Go in French Plane. ICEBREAKERS NEAR ITALIA CASTAWAYS Guilbaud to Start Today. Swedish Plane Hops Off. Report Nobile Has Broken Limbs.

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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

35,783 days ago

(98 years, 13 days)