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Wednesday, June 28, 1933

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The Headlines

COTTON INDUSTRY OPPOSED BY LABOR ON ITS TRADE CODE; 40-Hour Week Urged at Industrial Act Hearing -- Green Wants Standard of 32. MACHINERY CURBS ASKED G. A. Sloan Sees End of Child Labor -- Tire Firms Seek to Exempt Fabric Plants. Cotton Textile Industry Blazes Trade Codes Trail

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Stormy Weather

Harold Arlen

The must-have

Charlotte Clark Mickey Mouse

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

damefellaswelllousy

Hardboiled

clip jointgriftershamusgunsel

Swing Era

alligatorjitterbugkiller dillerin the groove

Catchphrases of 1933

  • The only thing we have to fear is fear itself

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

Time Elapsed

33,946 days ago

(93 years, 1 days)