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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

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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

33,405 days ago

(91 years, 190 days)