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Monday, September 16, 1974
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The Headlines
THE RESTAURANTS OF NEW YORK
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe
Barry White
#1 at the box office
That's Entertainment!
$524,350
The must-have
Connect 4
You Share a Birthday With
- Lee Kuan Yew (1923)
- Lauren Bacall (1924)
- B. B. King (1925)
- Karl Dönitz (1891)
- Henry V of England (1386)
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
18,890 days ago
(51 years, 275 days)