four times in The Standing High Jump‚ taken with no run-up‚ and both feet firmly together. 8. Not content with winning the Penny Farthing Bicycle Race at the 1904 Olympics‚ Mortimer Basildon went on to win every individual bicycling event. 9. The 1932 Olympics featured Club Swinging where competitors swung clubs around their body in a variety of intricate patterns. 10. The 1984‚ 1988 and 1992 Olympics included Solo Synchronized Swimming‚ wherein competitors synchronize their swimming with... themselves
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In the political world‚ the economic distress led to the election of Democrat‚ Franklin D. Roosevelt to the presidency in 1932. He introduced many changes in the structure of the American economy and implemented what was called the New Deal that began many public-works projects to decrease unemployment. The Tennessee Valley Authority and the Public Works Administration are
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Herbert Hoover and His Role in The Great Depression With the continually worsening conditions‚ and the stock market crash on Black Tuesday‚ October 29‚ 1929‚ the United States was thrown into the biggest economical disaster of our history. Everyone‚ excluding the rich upper class‚ became poor and most unemployed. The majority of the American populace found themselves living in shantytowns’ or Hoovervilles’ as they later became to be known‚ which consisted of many cramped shacks constructed
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35 Fall in px of agricultural products and raw materials Result This triggered protectionism World trade fell by 50% from 1929 to 1932 The smoot-harley triff (June 1930) Financial Crises Credit –anstaly (Austria) 1931 resulted in many eastern european countries defaulting due to the old ties to the Hapsburgs; The Greuger affair (Sweden) 1932 Sweden in the Great Depression Unemployment in Sweden was less and not affected so greatly. WHY ? Why wasn’t Sweden so severly
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held in the years 1940 and 1944 due to the First World War. In this assessment our aim is to consider the winning height for the men’s high jump in the Olympic games and to derive a function to properly model the given data. Year | Height | 1932 | 197 | 1936 | 203 | 1948 | 198 | 1952 | 204 | 1956 | 212 | 1960 | 216 | 1964 | 218 | 1968 | 224 | 1972 | 223 | 1976 | 225 | 1980 | 236 | Some data in our findings will be excludable because this is a real life situation so
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While life in the city was easier for the most part than rural life‚ there was still hunger and separation of class. After collectivization began‚ the rural meat industry crumbled and meat shortages grew more common over time. In July 1930‚ only about 9% (14 million) of urban citizens were given meat in their rations‚ and different amounts of meat were given out on a different number of days depending on one’s occupation (Osokina‚ 2001‚ pg. 47). The shops within cities also discriminated based
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Germany 1918 – 1939 1. The Weimer Republic * Emergence of the Democratic republic and the Impact of the Treaty of Versailles * REVOLUTION AND THE BIRTH OF THE WEIMER REPUBLIC * October 2nd 1918: Reichstag (parliament) informed GR couldn’t win war * Prince Max von Baden: became chancellor‚ brought Social Democratic Party (SDP) majority socialists into his cabinet hoped to maintain monarchy * Allies wouldn’t sign Armistice until Kaiser no longer ruled. * October 28 1918:
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[online] Available at: http://www.pre-war-housing.org.uk/housing-subsidies-and-the-housing-financial-provisions-act-1933.htm Accessed on 27th May 2012 Dorling‚ D Freeman‚ C. (1985) Britain in the 1930’s (living through history) Batsford Ltd. Hansard (1932) HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL Hudson‚ J. (2008) Thoughts on the Haupstadt ’s other architecture. Horseshoe Estate [online] Available at: http://www.architectureinberlin.com/?tag=horseshoe-estate Accessed on; 28th May 2012 Hymers‚ P Jerram‚ L
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try their hardest to save them. Such was the case of the Lindbergh family. It was a regular day on March 1st‚ 1932. Mr. Lindbergh was going to work and Mrs. Lindbergh was going to stay home with the baby. She went upstairs to check on the baby. He was not there. Mrs. Lindbergh then found a ransom note. All of a sudden the world crashed down on her. Her baby was kidnapped. March 1st‚ 1932‚ twenty-month-old Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr.‚ son of aviator Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Tausha Johnson Case #15 1. In 1932‚ the federal government’s intervention in the market for home ownership was desirable. Not only was it desirable‚ but it was needed. It has been the federal government’s desire to have every American become a part of the American dream and be a homeowner. In 1932 President Hoover signed the Federal Home Loan Bank Act to establish a series of discount banks for home mortgages. This would assist in increasing the likelihood of Americans owning a home and not
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