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Monday, June 12, 1939
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The Headlines
$84,000,000 SAVING URGED FOR SCHOOLS; Drop Cost Per Pupil to Level of Other States, Taxpayers Ask--Teachers Fight Cuts
Read in The New York Times →The must-have
View-Master
On This Day
Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
Wikipedia →The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- George H. W. Bush (1924)
- Anne Frank (1929)
- Anthony Eden (1897)
- Egon Schiele (1890)
- Johanna Spyri (1827)
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
31,771 days ago
(87 years, 16 days)