1929 tHE Year In Review
Finance
The average girl works 50 hours per week, and makes $33.50 per week.
Stock Market reaches record high of 381, followed by the Black Thursday Crash. (Right)
Technology
Vladmir Zorykin invents the kinescope, or the basic part of a television (Right)
Sports, Entertainment
Notre Dame wins NCAA Football Championship (Right)
Henri Cochet is men’s champion of Wimbledon; Helen Wills wins the women champion.
The Broadway Melody becomes Oscar Winner for Best Film
News, Politics, World
Al Capone and his gang convicted of killing 7 other gangsters. (Right)
Herbert Hoover becomes president
Yugoslavia is established