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Monday, June 24, 1929

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The Headlines

GUGGENHEIM TO GIVE FREE DENTAL CLINICS FOR CHILDREN OF CITY; Creates the Murry and Leonie Guggenheim Fund to Build Units in Every Borough. FIRST TO COST $3,000,000 Program Not Yet Worked Out, but a Tremendous Project is Indicated. NEED FOR IT HELD GREAT Walker and other Officials Have Promised to Cooperate, Says Announcement. Program Not Yet Developed. GUGGENHEIM TO GIVE FREE DENTAL CLINICS Many Fail to Get Treatment. Expects Dentists to Cooperate.

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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

35,410 days ago

(97 years, 5 days)