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Friday, October 25, 1974
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The Headlines
G.M. Will Lay Off 6,000 at 4 Plants
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Then Came You
Dionne Warwick and The Spinners
#1 at the box office
The Longest Yard
$905,854
The must-have
Connect 4
You Share a Birthday With
- Pablo Picasso (1881)
- Georges Bizet (1838)
- Évariste Galois (1811)
- Johann Strauss II (1825)
- Max Stirner (1806)
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
18,852 days ago
(51 years, 237 days)