Bee's Knees Dec. 1929 | Page 15

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