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adjoining roads belonged to both Marin Country and San Francisco and hence to Bridging the Golden Gate Association. Did you know that Golden Gate Bridge’s name was first used in 1917 in project’s initial stages by Straussand M. O'Shaughnessy? But it was in 1932 that it got official status by Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District Act of state legislature. Having taken all the trouble, Strauss was rightful chief engineer of the project. Remember the Strauss’ first design? It was extended and a…

James Chadwick, 82, of Bollington, England, passed away on July 24 while living in Cambridge, England. He died in his sleep of an unknown cause. Chadwick was a very important figure in history, having discovered the neutron in 1932. Chadwick was the son of John Joseph Chadwick, a railway storekeeper, and Anne Mary Knowles, a domestic servant. At a young age of 11, Chadwick won an entry to grammar school. He had two brothers, Hubert and Harry Knowles, along with two twin daughters whom he left…

Americans, Hoover asked “business leaders to promise to maintain investments and employment.” However, that was not very effective because he was only asking for volunteerism, when many business leaders were also suffering from the Great Depression. In 1932, the political view changed from conservatism to a social democracy after Franklin D. Roosevelt became the new president the following year. Radicalism, an extreme change of traditional political view, became…

The Dust Bowl began on Thursday, April 18, 1935, it was a huge, black, cloud of dirt, piled up on the western horizon. This storm was enormous and deadly. The Dust Bowl affected Oklahoma, Texas, parts of Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico. These states were vulnerable to the dust storm for their lack of rainfall, light soil, and high winds. As a result, soil lacked the strong roots of grass in order to stay in place, this made it easier for high, hectic winds to get a hold of the soil. Years…

On October 29th, 1929, the United States witnessed one of it’s greatest economic tragedies. The American people watched banks fail with uninsured deposits, leading to people losing the entirety of their savings. Surviving banks were no longer lending freely to the general public, and unemployment skyrocketed to nearly 25%. This infamous event is now referred to as Black Tuesday and the time period to follow would be known as the Great Depression. Events soon grew immensely worse with the…

The Great Depression was a tremendously hard experience for every single American during the 1930s. The Great Depression was a time period between 1929-1939 that started when the stock market crashed leading to a multitude of businesses closing or laying off their workers. Most families could no longer afford to buy things, like clothes or coal to heat their homes during the winter, during this time period. Dust Bowl farmers couldn’t produce crops for consumers, factories or even for…

Hattie Caraway was best known for being the first woman to serve in the United States Senate. Her life before, during, and after the Senate was all very important. She was a very important woman in Arkansas history. Hattie was born on February 1, 1878, in Bakerville, Tennessee on a farm. Her full name was Hattie Ophelia Wyatt when she was born. Her father, William Carroll Wyatt, was a shoekeeper and a farmer. Her mother, Lucy Mildred Burch Wyatt, raised three children plus Hattie. When Hattie…

to union activity and the rights of employees to form labor organizations and to be protected against unfair labor practices at the hands of employees. Employees held all the power until 1932 when the Norris-LaGuardia Act and the Wagner Act of 1935 was enacted in the United States. The Norris-LaGuardia Act of 1932 was established to recognize that a job to a worker is more important than a worker is to a corporation and the only power employees had been in numbers. Employers wasn’t concerned if…

She was the first woman to fly as a passenger across the Atlantic Ocean in 1928. In 1932, she became the first woman to pilot a plane across the Atlantic Ocean after breaking all the stereotypes built up for women. She worked for the Cosmopolitan career as a writer and encouraging women to learn to fly planes, or to just be whatever they…

Earhart was the 16th woman to ever get her pilots license. When Amelia Earhart started flying, she set world record of 18,415 feet. Amelia Earhart is also famous for her solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. She flew across the Atlantic in 1932. In 1932, she also got awarded a gold medal by the National Geographic Society. Her flight across the Atlantic Ocean took her 14 hrs 56 min. Amelia Earhart had good accomplishments during her lifetime. Earhart set the woman's speed record of 181…