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Monday, December 12, 1932
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The Headlines
2 DIE IN STORM HERE AS SNOWFALL ENDS; MOST OF NATION HIT; Two-Inch City Blanket Fails to Bring Jobs to Waiting 15,000 -- Lodging Houses Jammed. MINOR MISHAPS NUMEROUS Many Hurt Coasting, in Falls on Ice and in Auto Crashes -- Plane With 2 Missing. EVEN SOUTH SHARES CHILL San Francisco Coldest In 62 Years -- 24 Below Zero In Nevada -- Eight Lose Lives In Pennsylvania. 2 DIE IN STORM HERE AS SNOWFALL ENDS
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Jay Gorney
#1 at the box office
Flesh
$150,900
The must-have
Charlotte Clark Mickey Mouse
You Share a Birthday With
- Gustave Flaubert (1821)
- Frank Sinatra (1915)
- Edvard Munch (1863)
- Alfred Werner (1866)
- Edward G. Robinson (1893)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
damefellaswelllousy
Hardboiled
clip jointgriftershamusgunsel
Swing Era
alligatorjitterbugkiller dillerin the groove
Tech Check
Parking Meter, Zoom Lens & Folding Wheelchair.
Cost of Living (1930)
Loaf of Bread
$0.09
Gallon of Gas
$0.20
Average Home
$3,900
New Car
$640
Meanwhile
- The Great Depression — GDP fell 30%; triggered by Black Tuesday (1929-10-29).
Time Elapsed
34,144 days ago
(93 years, 199 days)