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Saturday, September 14, 1974
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The Headlines
Planes for Sale: A Full‐Dress U.S. Effort
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
I Shot the Sheriff
Eric Clapton
#1 at the box office
That's Entertainment!
$524,350
The must-have
Connect 4
You Share a Birthday With
- Dmitry Medvedev (1965)
- Pope Leo XIV (1955)
- Alexander von Humboldt (1769)
- Francisco de Quevedo (1580)
- Renzo Piano (1937)
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
18,892 days ago
(51 years, 277 days)