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Thursday, April 27, 1939
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The Headlines
CITY'S TAX BUDGET CUT TO $587,518,638; LEVY KEPT AT $2.80; Slash of $2,461,938 From Last Year--Total for 1939-40 Is $684,396,271 EDUCATION HEADS SCORED Highly Paid Members of Board Assailed for Refusing to Take Salary Slashes Morris Scores Education Heads Isaacs Adds Criticism CITY'S TAX BUDGET CUT TO $587,518,638
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You Share a Birthday With
- Ulysses S. Grant (1822)
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759)
- Herbert Spencer (1820)
- Samuel Morse (1791)
- Sergei Prokofiev (1891)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
damefellaswelllousy
Hardboiled
clip jointgriftershamusgunsel
Swing Era
alligatorjitterbugkiller dillerin the groove
Tech Check
Television Sets (World's Fair), View-Master & Helicopter (Sikorsky).
Cost of Living (1930)
Loaf of Bread
$0.09
Gallon of Gas
$0.20
Average Home
$3,900
New Car
$640
Time Elapsed
31,816 days ago
(87 years, 61 days)