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‘The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.’ Franklin D. Roosevelt 32nd. U.S. President Served March 4, 1933 – April 12, 1945 Packard Wagon
1937 COST OF LIVING
John “Cactus Jack” Garner
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World events
• The Soviet Union executes 31 people Jan. 31 for alleged Trotskyism. • The League of Nations Non-Intervention Committee prohibits foreign nationals from fighting in the Spanish Civil War on Feb. 21. • The encyclical “Mit brennender Sorge” (“With burning concern”) of Pope Pius XI is published in Germany in the German language March 10, condemning breaches of the 1933 Reichskonkordat agreement signed between the Nazi government and the Catholic Church, and criticizing Nazism’s views on race and other matters
• A police squad, acting under orders from Governor of Puerto Rico Blanton Winship, opens fire March 21 on demonstrators protesting the arrest of Puerto Rican Nationalist Party leader Pedro Albizu Campos, killing 17 people and injuring over 200. • Frank Whittle ground-tests the world’s first jet engine designed to power an aircraft April 12, at Rugby, England. • In Germany Volkswagen Group is founded, to build a “people’s car” May 28. • Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear July 2 after taking off
in Lakehurst, New Jersey.
“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” hits theaters.
from New Guinea during Earhart’s attempt to become the first woman to fly around the world. • The Soviet Union commences one of the largest campaigns of the Great Purge, to “eliminate anti-Soviet elements” Aug. 5. Within the following year, at least 724,000 people are killed. • The Great Hong Kong Typhoon kills an estimated 11,000 people Sept. 2.
U.S. News
• Howard Hughes sets a new record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City on Jan. 19 in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds. • The first issue of the comic book Detective Comics is published March 1. Twentyseven issues later, Detective Comics
introduces Batman. The comic goes on to become the longest continually published comic magazine in American history. • The New London School in New London, Tex. suffers a catastrophic natural gas explosion March 18, killing 295 students and teachers. • The animated short “Porky’s Duck Hunt” featuring the debut of Daffy Duck, is released April 17. • The German airship Hindenburg bursts into flame May 6 when mooring to a mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey. • The Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic May 27. The next day, President Roosevelt pushes a button in Washington, D.C., signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the bridge. • A guard first stands post at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Washington, D.C. on July 2; continuous guard has been maintained there ever since. • Hormel introduces the canned precooked meat product Spam on July 5. • The Senate votes down President Roosevelt’s proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court on July 22. • Ernest Hemingway’s novel “To Have
The Golden Gate Bridge opens in San Francisco.
and Have Not” is published Oct. 15. • Walt Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” the first feature-length animated cartoon with sound, opens Dec. 21 and becomes a smash hit.
Movies • • • • • • • • • •
“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” “The Prince and the Pauper” “La Grande Illusion” “The Man’s Here Again” “Melody for Two” “Lost Horizon” “Heidi” “The Good Earth” “Draegerman Courage” “The Awful Truth”
BORN THIS YEAR: Dustin Hoffman, actor (Aug. 8). Above left: Merle Haggard, musician (April 6); Madeleine Albright, diplomat (May 15); Morgan Freeman, actor (June 1); Jane Fonda, actress (Dec. 21).
• “It Looks Like Rain in Cherry Blossom Lane,” Guy Lombardo • “September in the Rain,” Guy Lombardo
Music
• “Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing),” Benny Goodman • “One O’Clock Jump,” Count Basie • “Sweet Leilani,” Bing Crosby • “They Can’t Take That Away From Me,” Fred Astaire • “Caravan,” Duke Ellington • “Marie,” Tommy Dorsey • “Goodnight, My Love,” Ella Fitzgerald • “That Old Feeling,” Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm Orchestra
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• Income per year ....... $1,780 • New house ............... $4,100 • Rent .................................. $26 • New car.......................... $760 • Gallon of gas ................... 10¢ • Gallon of milk . ............... 50¢ • Loaf of bread ..................... 9¢ • First-class stamp ...............3¢ • Movie ticket .................... 25¢
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April 1, 2016