What Happened In 1932?

W.E. Carter, along with T. Neil Jones, founded the Carter Jones Lumber Company in Akron, Ohio

Franklin Delano Roosevelt elected 32nd President

Winter Olympics held in Lake Placid, New York
– (17 countries represented by 250 athletes, most from the U.S. and Canada)

Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles
– (37 countries represented by 1,300 athletes)

Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic

Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly solo nonstop across the U.S.

Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall opens

The New York Yankees sweep the Chicago Cubs in the 29th World Series (4-0)

Ford Motors publicly unveils its V-8 engine

Jazz composer Duke Ellington writes "It Don't Mean a Thing, If It Ain't Got That Swing", a song that ushered in the swing era of the 1930s and 1940s

Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate

Al Capone is sent to prison

Interesting Facts About 1932:

$3,050 — average cost to build a new home

$6,515 — average cost to buy a new home

$1,652 — average annual income

$18.00 — average monthly rent

$610.00 — average cost of a new car

$.03 — price of a postage stamp

$400.00/year — cost of tuition at Harvard University

$.25 — cost of a movie ticket

$.10/gallon — cost of gas

1932 Births:
February 26	Johnny Cash (d.2003)
February 27	Elizabeth Taylor
July 2	Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's (d. 2002)
July 9	Donald Rumsfeld (Ex U.S. Secretary of Defense)
September 8	Patsy Cline (d. 1963)
December 5	"Little" Richard