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World Events
U.S. Events
Economics
Federal spending: $6.41 billion Consumer Price Index: 13.7 Unemployment: 20.1% Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.03
Sports
World SeriesDetroit d. Chicago Cubs (4-2)Stanley CupMontreal Maroons d. Toronto (3-0)WimbledonWomen: Helen Moody d. H. Jacobs (6-3 3-6 7-5) Men: Fred Perry d. G. von Cramm (6-2 6-4 6-4)Kentucky Derby ChampionOmahaNCAA Football ChampionsMinnesota (CFRA, NCF, HF) (8-0-0) & SMU (DS) (12-1-0)
Entertainment
Entertainment Awards
Pulitzer Prizes Fiction: Now in November, Josephine Winslow Johnson Drama: The Old Maid, Zöe Akins Oscars awarded in 1935 Academy Award, Best Picture: It Happened One Night (Columbia) Miss America: Henrietta Leaver (PA) More Entertainment Awards...
Events- Although a primitive, two-color process was first used in 1922, audiences weren't impressed by Technicolor until a three-color system appeared in Becky Sharp.
- George Gershwin combines black folk idiom and Broadway musical techniques in Porgy and Bess.
- Allen Lane's Penguin Press, an English publishing house, reintroduces the paperback book.
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: Frédéric and Irène Joliot-Curie (both France), for synthesis of new radioactive elements Physics: James Chadwick (UK), for discovery of the neutron Physiology or Medicine: Hans Spemann (Germany), for discovery of the organizer effect in embryonic development
- Du Pont chemist Wallace Hume Carothers creates nylon, the first completely synthetic fabric.
- Aircraft-detecting radar is pioneered by Robert Watson-Watt in England.
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