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Tuesday, December 4, 1934
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The Headlines
Post, Battling for Life in Flight, Believes He Set Altitude Record; Round-World Aviator Figures He Ascended 48,000 Feet Over Oklahoma While Struggling With Oxygen Pressure Threatening to Blow Him Up. POST FIGHTS TO SET ALTITUDE RECORD
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
- Francisco Franco (1892)
- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875)
- Thomas Carlyle (1795)
- Samuel Butler (novelist) (1835)
- Albert Bandura (1925)
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
33,422 days ago
(91 years, 207 days)