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Friday, June 8, 1934

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The Headlines

$75,000 RACE PRIZE MIRAGE TO JANITOR; Goes Sadly Back to His Broom When He Finds Nephew Owns Winning Ticket. SIXTH STREET IN TURMOIL Neighbors Split Into Warring Camps as Gloom Supplants Dream of $200 Party. $75,000 DERBY PRIZE PROVES A MIRAGE

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Blue Moon

Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart

The must-have

Sorry! (Board Game)

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

33,600 days ago

(92 years, 20 days)