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Friday, October 19, 1934
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The Headlines
21 Planes Prepare for Great Race; To Start for Australia Tomorrow; Pilots and Mechanics Work Feverishly on Machines at English Airdrome -- Mollisons' Craft and Another Are Damaged -American Ones, Overweight, Have to Cut Fuel. RACE TO AUSTRALIA BEGINS TOMORROW
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
- Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899)
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910)
- John le Carré (1931)
- Marsilio Ficino (1433)
- Thomas Browne (1605)
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
33,468 days ago
(91 years, 253 days)