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Friday, January 13, 1933
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The Headlines
BRITAIN HALTS DEAL BY LIGGETT CHAIN; Holds Up $25,000,000 Sale of Boots Drug Stock to London Group, Lest Pound Suffer. CHAMBERLAIN TO DECIDE Treasury Acts Under Embargo on Foreign Issues and Stirs Protest by Business Men. BRITISH HALT DEAL BY LIGGETT CHAIN
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Stormy Weather
Harold Arlen
The must-have
Charlotte Clark Mickey Mouse
You Share a Birthday With
- AD 101 (101)
- Wilhelm Wien (1864)
- Sydney Brenner (1927)
- Paul Feyerabend (1924)
- Chaïm Soutine (1893)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
damefellaswelllousy
Hardboiled
clip jointgriftershamusgunsel
Swing Era
alligatorjitterbugkiller dillerin the groove
Tech Check
FM Radio, Drive-In Theater & Polyethylene.
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
34,111 days ago
(93 years, 166 days)