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The Empire State Building, the world's tallest building for 57 years was built. |
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Frozen foods were sold commercially by Clarence Birdseye in 1931. |
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Radar was invented by Robert Watt in 1938. |
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The 3M Company marketed Scotch Tape in 1933 |
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Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, soon to start. World War II. |
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The novel Brave New World was published by Aldous Huxley. |
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Gone With The Wind was a hit movie in 1930. |
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The Wizard of Oz delighted audiences of all ages in 1930. |
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In 1931, the Coca-Cola Company commissioned Chicago illustrator
Haddon Sundblom to develop the image of a human-like Santa Claus. |
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The Phantom, Superman, and 'Terry and the Pirates' were popular comic strips. |
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"Swing" music starts becoming popular replacing Jazz that had been popular. |
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Monopoly was the best-selling game in America in 1935. |
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German dirigible Hindenburg was destroyed by fire in 1937, killing 36 in New Jersey. |
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Al Jolson was singing his heart our, "You ain't heard nothin' yet!" |
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Air Conditioning was invented leading to major population shift to the southwest. |
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Barbara Stanwyck began a career on stage and screen. |
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Charles Lindbergh's baby was kidnapped and later found dead. |
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Dillinger, John was killed in 1934, former public enemy number one. |
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Bonnie and Clyde Killed by Police 1934 |
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The Loch Ness Monster First Spotted in the 1930s and still seen today! |
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Bing Crosby was singing on stage, the movies and records. |
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Duke Ellington was an American jazz composer, pianist, and band leader. |
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Prohibition Ends in the U.S. in 1933 |
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Alcoholics Anonymous Founded 1935 |
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Eddie Cantor was a great star of the stage and screen. |
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Movies were being made by Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, and Alfred Hitchcock |
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Social Security was enacted in U.S. in 1935. |
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Lary Stover was born in 1938 on a farm in Northwest Ohio. |
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Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were dancing up a storm. |
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Hoover Dam was completed 1936. |
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The Golden Gate Bridge opened in 1937. |
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George Burns and Gracie Allen was entertaining us. |
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The helicopter was invented 1939. |
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Jack Benny had us laughing all the way to his underground money vault. |
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Katharine Hepburn started making movies. |
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Shirley Temple was dancing and singing to the song "The Good Ship Lollipop". |
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Wayne King was creating great music. |
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Edward Hopper was painting his realistic scenes from city life. |
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Georgia O'Keeffe was creating her southwestern themes of art and photography. |
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Andrew Mellon gave his art collection to and helped build the National Gallery of Art. |
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The famous Dick and Jane books were first published in 1931. |
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President Roosevelt helped make stamp collecting a popular hobby. |
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The Civilian Conservation Corps built recreational facilities in the national parks. |
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Hats were mandatory for the well dressed male. |
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Dr. Seuss delighted children with his rhyming books for youngsters learning to read. |
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Will Rogers was a well loved and respected radio commentator, film actor, and author. |
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Walter Winchell wasa 'gossip' columnist and radio commentator. |
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Joe DiMaggio was becoming a great baseball star. |
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Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. |
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Jesse Owens won four gold medals in track-and-field at the 1936 Olympics. |
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Gutzon Borglum completed his Mount Rushmore Memorial. |
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American regionalist style of Grant Wood's famous work, "American Gothic". |
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Dale Carnegie penned the book How to Win Friends and Influence People in 1936. |
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1935 that George Gershwin's American folk opera Porgy and Bess was first performed. |
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In 1931 Congress designated "The Star Spangled Banner" as the national anthem. |
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In 1938 Kate Smith sang Irving Berlin's "God Bless America." |
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The Lone Ranger rode into our lives with thrilling tales. |
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Edward R. Murrow was telling us of the increasing crisis in Europe. |
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Gone With the Wind debuted in Atlanta, Georgia in 1939. |
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Walt Disney produced the movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937. |
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NYC starts installing traffic lights in 1930. |
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Figure skater Sonja Henie wins world's amateur singles for the fourth time. |
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Baseball Hall of Fame is established at Cooperstown, NY 1936. |
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DuPont promotes first nylon product—a toothbrush. 1938 |
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A gallon of gas was 10 cents in 1930. |
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Charles Ponzi A "Ponzi scheme" has become synonymous with wild speculation. |
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U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy was born 1932. |
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World War II Begins 1939 |
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