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Monday, November 11, 1974
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The Headlines
Taxi Industry Split By Dispute on Future
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Whatever Gets You thru the Night
John Lennon
#1 at the box office
The Longest Yard
$816,500
The must-have
Connect 4
You Share a Birthday With
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821)
- Leonardo DiCaprio (1974)
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922)
- Benedicta Boccoli (1966)
- Demi Moore (1962)
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
18,834 days ago
(51 years, 219 days)