What was happening in America in 1922?

Answer 1

ü $1 in 1922 = $13.05 in 2012

ü Gas: 25 cents a gallon

ü Bread: 9 cents

ü Milk: 55 cents a gallon

ü House: about $7,000- $8,000

ü Consumer Price Index: 16.8

ü Unemployment: 6.7%

ü Warren G Harding is President

ü Top books were: The Golden Bough and Ulysses

ü The Velveteen Rabbit was published

ü The Reader's Digest Magazine is launched

ü Songs: Lady of the Evening, Hot Lips and Angel Child

ü Movies: Beyond the Rocks, Oliver Twist, Sherlock Holmes, and Robin Hood

ü Disney founded Laugh-O-Gram Films

ü Movie Stars: Marlene Dietrick, Cary Grant, Clark Gable, and Louise Brooks

ü The radio starts sweeping the country- first used in White House

ü Howard Carter finds the entrance to King Tutankhamun tomb in Egypt

ü The first US Aircraft Carrier the "USS Langley" is commissioned

ü The Lincoln Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C.

ü U.S., U.K., France, Italy and Japan sign Washington naval arms limitation

ü Largest U.S. flag displayed (150' X 90')

ü Insulin 1st used to treat diabetes in Canada

ü A 20-ton meteorite lands near Blackstone, Virginia.