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Friday, August 30, 1929
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The Headlines
SECOND AV. CHOSEN FOR NEXT SUBWAY; COST $800,000,000; Program to Be Announced Soon Calls for Four-Track Line From Houston St. to the Harlem. TO SERVE FOUR BOROUGHS Connecting Links and Feeders Will Extend Into Brooklyn, Queens and East Bronx. SOME ROUTES TENTATIVE Recapture of White Plains Extension to Provide Through East Side Line Is Included in Plan. To Connect With Link Now Building. Plans Consider Unification. SECOND AV. CHOSEN FOR NEXT SUBWAY
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
- Ernest Rutherford (1871)
- Mary Shelley (1797)
- Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852)
- Jacques-Louis David (1748)
- Edward Mills Purcell (1912)
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
Meanwhile
- The Great Depression — GDP fell 30%; triggered by Black Tuesday (1929-10-29).
Time Elapsed
35,344 days ago
(96 years, 304 days)