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Tuesday, May 14, 1929

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The Headlines

PARIS PLANE SPEEDS 150 MILES AN HOUR IN FIRST TEST HERE; Craft Tuning Up for Atlantic Flight Outraces Pursuers at Roosevelt Field. RISES FROM SOGGY FIELD Three Frenchmen Take turns at Controls and Spectators Praise Their Work. RADIO SET IN GOOD SHAPE Motor is Started With Harness and Cables--Fuel Mixture Is Strained Twice Other Airplanes Distanced. Fuel Strained Twice. PARIS PLANE SPEEDS 150 MILES AN HOUR Lotti Says Plane Is Ready. FRENCH FLIERS TEST MONOPLANE HERE FOR HOP TO PARIS.

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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

35,452 days ago

(97 years, 47 days)