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Thursday, December 20, 1934
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The Headlines
MAYOR MAPS SITUATION; President Backs Fight Made by the City on Utility Rates. $15,000,000 WORKS IS AIM Ickes, for PWA, Is for Federal Sharing of Cost if Sound Plans Are Submitted. LA GUARDIA SPEEDS PLANS Washington Has Withheld Payment of Its Bills Here Since July, Pending Survey. POWER PLANT AID PROMISED MAYOR
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
- Kim Young-sam (1927)
- Jaroslav Heyrovský (1890)
- John III of Sweden (1537)
- Ferdinand Buisson (1841)
- Irene Dunne (1898)
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
33,405 days ago
(91 years, 190 days)