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1937 Packard 120
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Jan 1st - Safety glass in vehicle windscreens becomes mandatory in Great Britain. Jan 19th - Cy Young, Tris Speaker & Nap Lajorie elected to Baseball Hall of Fame Jan 25th - 1st broadcast of "Guiding Light" on NBC radio Feb 5th - 1st Charlie Chaplin talkie, "Modern Times," released Feb 16th - DuPont Corp patents nylon, developed by employee Wallace H Carothers Mar 1st - US Steel raises workers' wages to $5 a day Mar 24th - National Gallery of Art established by Congress Mar 25th - It's revealed Quaker Oats pays Babe Ruth $25,000 per year for ads Apr 4th - 4th Golf Masters Championship: Byron Nelson wins, shooting a 283 Apr 12th - Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine at Rugby, England. Apr 17th - Cartoon characters Daffy Duck, Elmer J Fudd & Petunia Pig, debut Apr 27th - 1st US social security payment made May 3rd - Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for "Gone With the Wind" May 6th - Dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, NJ May 26th - San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge opens Jun 11th - Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" released Jun 13th - Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs against St Louis Browns Jul 2nd - Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan disappear over Pacific Ocean Jul 5th - Spam, the luncheon meat, was introduced by the Hormel Foods Corporation. Aug 14th - China declares war on Japan Aug 28th - Toyota Motors becomes an independent company. Sep 21st - J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" is published Sep 28th - FDR dedicates Bonneville Dam on Columbia River (Oregon) Oct 15th - Ernest Hemingway novel "To Have & Have Not" published Nov 5th - Hitler informs his military leader of his intentions of going to war Dec 16th - Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from Alcatraz Dec 21st - 1st feature-length color & sound cartoon premieres (Snow White) Dec 22nd - Lincoln Tunnel (NYC) opens to traffic Dec 25th - Arturo Toscanini conducts 1st Symphony of the Air over NBC Radio Car: $675 (The Packard 120 MSRP: $1,250) Gasoline: 20 cents/gal House: $6,600 Bread: 9 cents/loaf Milk: 50 cents/gal Postage Stamp: 3 cents Average Annual Salary: $1,700 National unemployment: 14.3% |