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Friday, February 2, 1934

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The Headlines

STOCKS RISE ON CUT IN DOLLAR'S VALUE; Many Issues Sell at Highest Level in Several Years, With 4,713,000 Shares Traded.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Blue Moon

Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart

The must-have

Sorry! (Board Game)

On This Day

  • The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated.

    Wikipedia →

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

damefellaswelllousy

Hardboiled

clip jointgriftershamusgunsel

Swing Era

alligatorjitterbugkiller dillerin the groove

Catchphrases of 1934

  • It happened one night

Tech Check

Cat's Eye Road Studs, Telex & Hammond Organ.

Cost of Living (1930)

Loaf of Bread

$0.09

Gallon of Gas

$0.20

Average Home

$3,900

New Car

$640

Time Elapsed

33,726 days ago

(92 years, 146 days)