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Wednesday, April 24, 1974
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The Headlines
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Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)
MFSB and The Three Degrees
#1 at the box office
The Sting
$1,145,900
The must-have
Connect 4
You Share a Birthday With
- Barbra Streisand (1942)
- Shirley MacLaine (1934)
- Carl Spitteler (1845)
- Philippe Pétain (1856)
- Sachin Tendulkar (1973)
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
19,036 days ago
(52 years, 56 days)