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Tuesday, April 30, 1929

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The Headlines

REICH PLANS NO NEW OFFER; SEES DEBT PARLEY DOOMED UNLESS YOUNG CAN SAVE IT; HOPE OF LATER CONFERENCE The Cabinet and Schacht Discuss the Situation at Length. BERLIN STRIVES FOR AMITY It Prefers That No Minority Report Be Made So as to Avert Ill-Feeling. PARIS PARLEY HOPEFUL YET Delegates Expect at Least to Frame Skeleton Report for Insertion of Figures Later. Desire to Avoid Acrimony. Reich in Need of Funds. Young Reported as Sole Hope. Hear S. Parker Gilbert Will Quit.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Singin' in the Rain

Nacio Herb Brown

The must-have

Duncan Yo-Yo

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush

Flapper

bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy

Gangster

big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy

Catchphrases of 1929

  • Wall Street Lays an Egg

Tech Check

Car Radio, Sunglasses (Mass Produced) & Coaxial Cable.

Cost of Living (1920)

Loaf of Bread

$0.11

Gallon of Gas

$0.30

Average Home

$6,296

New Car

$575

Time Elapsed

35,465 days ago

(97 years, 60 days)