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Saturday, April 21, 1934

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The Headlines

ROOSEVELT RENEWS HIS PLEA TO EXTEND CUTS IN RAIL WAGES; Letter to Eastman Proposes Roads' New Earnings Be Used for Employment. CABINET INQUIRY ORDERED Perkins, Roper and Cummings Named to Study Ways to Revise Capital Structure. STRIKE BALLOT IS FEARED Some Men Are Reported Demanding at Least Partial Restoration of Pay on July 1. ROOSEVELT RENEWS RAIL PAY CUT PLEA

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Blue Moon

Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart

The must-have

Sorry! (Board Game)

On This Day

  • The "Surgeon's Photograph", the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail (in 1994, it is revealed to be a hoax).

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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

33,649 days ago

(92 years, 69 days)