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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.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Singin' in the Rain
Nacio Herb Brown
The must-have
Duncan Yo-Yo
You Share a Birthday With
- Ambrose Bierce (1842)
- Victor Hess (1883)
- Juan Manuel Fangio (1911)
- Martin Lewis Perl (1927)
- Ernesto Sabato (1911)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush
Flapper
bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy
Gangster
big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy
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)