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Thursday, February 27, 1975
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The Headlines
$7‐BILLION URGED FOR REORGANIZING RAILWAY SYSTEM
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Best of My Love
Eagles
#1 at the box office
The Towering Inferno
$964,550
The must-have
Pet Rock
You Share a Birthday With
- Constantine the Great (272)
- John Steinbeck (1902)
- Elizabeth Taylor (1932)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807)
- Joanne Woodward (1930)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
discostreakyuppie
Trucker Cb
10-4bearconvoygood buddysmokey
Funk Soul
can you dig itjiveright onsolidturkey
Tech Check
Personal Computer (Altair 8800), Digital Camera & Laser Printer.
Cost of Living (1975)
Loaf of Bread
$0.36
Gallon of Gas
$0.57
Average Home
$39,300
New Car
$4,950
Meanwhile
- Oil Crisis Recession — OPEC embargo quadrupled oil prices; stagflation begins.
Time Elapsed
18,727 days ago
(51 years, 112 days)