| Year Summary | <strong>In UK</strong>: Monarch is King George V. Prime Minister is Ramsay MacDonald (Labour). British unemployment averages 18%. British airship R100 takes 78 hours to get to Canada, but airship R101 disastrously crashes in France. Arthur Ransome publishes <em>Swallows and Amazons</em>.<br /><strong>In USA</strong>: President is Herbert Hoover (R-California). In New York, The Chrysler Building is completed and the Empire State Building begins construction. Colonel Sanders opens the first <em>Kentucky Fried Chicken</em> in North Corbin, Kentucky. Clarence Birdseye sells the first ever frozen food in Springfield, Massachusetts. |
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