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One February evening in North Chicago, seven well-dressed men were found riddled with bullets inside the S.M.C Cartage Co. garage. They had been lined up against a wall, with their backs to their executioners and shot to death.
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You have to wait in line, all of you, every morning, really early, babies are still asleep, all for a microscopic crumb or crust of bread. This was the 1930's: The Great Depression was bearing down on all;
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Empire State Building: for decades the tallest building of New York City and the world: until it was beaten by New York's One World Trade Center building in
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The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon (1/4 ¢/L) sold.
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The Golden Gate Bridge was the longest span in the world from its completion in 1937 until the Verrazano Narrows Bridge was built in New York in 1964. Today, it still has the ninth-longest suspension span in the world
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his first socio-organizational history of the Gestapo, the SD, and the regular detectives of the Third Reich, 1932-1937, explores the roots of their roles in police terror and programs of mass murder.
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For eight years dust blew on the southern plains. It came in a yellowish-brown haze from the South and in rolling walls of black from the North
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The first, all glass, windowless building is completed in Toledo, Ohio as the home of the Owens-Illinois Glass Company Laboratory
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The political purge was primarily an effort by Stalin to eliminate challenge from past
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The Great Depression was a calamity of unprecedented scope. "The Dirty Thirties," "The Winter Years," "The Bitter Thirties," "Ten Lost Years" - the book titles say it all.
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February 1, Dmitri Shostakovich named professor at conservatory of Leningrad
