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Friday, August 2, 1974
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The Headlines
2,000 on IRT Flee A Rush‐Hour Fire At Wall St. Station
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Annie's Song
John Denver
#1 at the box office
For Pete's Sake
$661,500
The must-have
Connect 4
You Share a Birthday With
- Shimon Peres (1923)
- Peter O'Toole (1932)
- Isabel Allende (1942)
- James Baldwin (1924)
- Jorge Rafael Videla (1925)
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
18,935 days ago
(51 years, 320 days)