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Friday, November 8, 1974
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The Headlines
CITY REPORT FINDS BUILDING INDUSTRY INFESTED BY GRAFT
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
Bachman–Turner Overdrive
#1 at the box office
The Longest Yard
$816,500
The must-have
Connect 4
You Share a Birthday With
- Alain Delon (1935)
- Kazuo Ishiguro (1954)
- Bram Stoker (1847)
- Margaret Mitchell (1900)
- Edmond Halley (1656)
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
18,837 days ago
(51 years, 222 days)