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Friday, August 4, 1939
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The Headlines
Approval Voted to Literary Piracy By Experts of Six American Nations; Jurisconsults at Montevideo Would Share U.S. Culture by 'Lifting' Artistic, Literary and Scientic Material SANCTION IS VOTED TO LITERARY PIRACY Situation Now Confused
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View-Master
You Share a Birthday With
- Louis Armstrong (1901)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792)
- Knut Hamsun (1859)
- Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (1900)
- William Rowan Hamilton (1805)
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
31,717 days ago
(86 years, 327 days)