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Friday, February 1, 1974
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The Headlines
Beame Offers 1.7‐Billion Capital Budget
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
The Way We Were
Barbra Streisand
#1 at the box office
The Exorcist †
$1,589,500
The must-have
Connect 4
On This Day
A fire in the 25-story Joelma Building in São Paulo, Brazil kills 189 and injures 293.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Boris Yeltsin (1931)
- Clark Gable (1901)
- Leymah Gbowee (1972)
- John Ford (1894)
- Langston Hughes (1902)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
discostreakyuppie
Trucker Cb
10-4bearconvoygood buddysmokey
Funk Soul
can you dig itjiveright onsolidturkey
Tech Check
UPC Barcode, Rubik's Cube & Post-it Notes.
Cost of Living (1970)
Loaf of Bread
$0.25
Gallon of Gas
$0.36
Average Home
$17,000
New Car
$3,450
Meanwhile
- Oil Crisis Recession — OPEC embargo quadrupled oil prices; stagflation begins.
Time Elapsed
19,117 days ago
(52 years, 137 days)