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Saturday, November 2, 1974
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The Headlines
UNEMPLOYED RATE AT 6% IN OCTOBER, HIGHEST IN 3 YEARS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
You Haven't Done Nothin'
Stevie Wonder
#1 at the box office
The Longest Yard
$926,200
The must-have
Connect 4
You Share a Birthday With
- James K. Polk (1795)
- Warren G. Harding (1865)
- Shah Rukh Khan (1965)
- Marie Antoinette (1755)
- George Boole (1815)
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
18,843 days ago
(51 years, 228 days)