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Tuesday, September 24, 1974
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The Headlines
Nixon Enters the Hospital For Treatment of Phlebitis
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Rock Me Gently
Andy Kim
#1 at the box office
Macon County Line
$458,000
The must-have
Connect 4
You Share a Birthday With
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896)
- Konstantin Chernenko (1911)
- İsmet İnönü (1884)
- Gerolamo Cardano (1501)
- Horace Walpole (1717)
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
18,882 days ago
(51 years, 267 days)