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Tuesday, December 26, 1933

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The Headlines

CITY YULETIDE GAY, ALL THE NEEDY FED; LESS INTOXICATION; New Spirit Marks Christmas Celebration With Gloom of Depression Lightened. REPEAL ADDS NOTE OF JOY Theatres and Restaurants Are Crowded -- Bread Line in Times Square Gone. HOSPITALS HOLD FETES LaGuardia Promises a Gift of Better City Government -- Home Party for Roosevelts. YULETIDE GAY HERE AS NEEDY DWINDLE

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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

33,764 days ago

(92 years, 184 days)