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Friday, April 27, 1934
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The Headlines
Radium Is Found in Thunderstorms, Drawn From Earth and Rained Back; Ionizing of Air Molecules by Radium Rays Is Reported by Carnegie Investigators to Increase as the Rain Starts and to Decline as the Fall Ceases. RADIUM IS FOUND IN THUNDERSTORMS
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Blue Moon
Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart
The must-have
Sorry! (Board Game)
You Share a Birthday With
- Ulysses S. Grant (1822)
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759)
- Herbert Spencer (1820)
- Samuel Morse (1791)
- Sergei Prokofiev (1891)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
damefellaswelllousy
Hardboiled
clip jointgriftershamusgunsel
Swing Era
alligatorjitterbugkiller dillerin the groove
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
33,642 days ago
(92 years, 62 days)