By 1929, when Chrysler expanded with a new plant there, Oakland had become known as the " Detroit of the West.

In 1929, Chrysler was named Time Magazine's Man of the Year.

The " Chrysler " portion of the nameplate was dropped with the introduction of the Plymouth Model U in 1929.

* Chrysler ( 1926-30 — Imperial 80, 1929 Imperial L ; 1931-37 — Imperial Series CG, CH, CL, and CW Newports and Thunderbolts ; 1934 — CX ; 1935 — C-3 ; 1936 — C-11 ; 1937-48 — Custom Imperial, Crown Imperial Series C-15, C-20, C-24, C-27, C-33, C-37, C-40 )

Although the Hillman company was acquired by Humber in 1929, Hillman was used as the primary marque of the Rootes Group from 1931, following its acquisition of Humber, until 1967, when Chrysler in turn took over Rootes.

Image: 1929 Richardson Croisette. jpg | 1929 Richardson Croisette, 29 foot, Chrysler Ace engine

Initially used by all Chrysler divisions, the straight-4 became Plymouth-only in 1929, lasting in production through 1932.

The DeSoto make was founded by Walter Chrysler on August 4, 1928, and introduced for the 1929 model year.

Due to problems over financing and a change of site, the Viipuri Library project lasted eight years, and during that same time he also designed the Turun Sanomat Building ( 1929 – 30 ) and Paimio Sanatorium ( 1929 – 33 ).

* 1926 – 1929: Defence Corps Building, Jyväskylä, Finland

Andrew R. Cobb designed the Science Building, 1913 – 15 ; MacDonald Memorial Library, 1914 – 15 ; Shirreff Hall Women's Residence, 1920 ; Arts Building, 1921 – 22 ; Medical Science Laboratory, 1921 – 22 ; Provincial Archives Building, 1929 ; Gymnasium Building, 1931.

* New York Daily News Building Manhattan, New York City 1929

They rented modest quarters for the new museum in the Heckscher Building at 730 Fifth Avenue ( corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street ) in Manhattan, and it opened to the public on November 7, 1929, nine days after the Wall Street Crash.

The 1929 Gulf Building in Houston, Texas, designed by architects Alfred C. Finn, Kenneth Franzheim, and J. E. R. Carpenter, is a full realization of that Saarinen design.

In addition, Pete is featured in the following Mickey Mouse cartoons: The Barn Dance ( 1928 ), The Barnyard Battle ( 1929 ), The Cactus Kid ( 1930 ), The Chain Gang ( 1930 ), Traffic Troubles ( 1931 ), The Mad Dog ( 1932 ), Barnyard Olympics ( 1932 ), Mickey in Arabia ( 1932 ), The Klondike Kid ( 1932 ), Mickey's Good Deed ( 1932 ), Building a Building ( 1933 ), The Mail Pilot ( 1933 ), Mickey's Gala Premier ( 1933 ), Shanghaied ( 1934 ), The Dognapper ( 1934 ), Two-Gun Mickey ( 1934 ), Mickey's Service Station ( 1935 ), Moving Day ( 1936 ), The Worm Turns ( 1937 ), Mickey's Amateurs ( 1937 ) and Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip ( 1940 ).

Many of the city's historic buildings were built during and just after this era, including the Grand Opera House in 1890, the Wechsler School in 1894, two Carnegie libraries in 1913, and the Threefoot Building, Meridian's tallest skyscraper, in 1929.

The Village of Roseville was incorporated in 1926 and the Municipal Building was constructed in 1929 at Gratiot Avenue and Meier Road.

The second hotel, the Aldridge ( currently a retirement center for senior citizens ), built in 1928 at the northwest corner of 9th and Bell streets, was a result of the wealth and growth generated by the oil boom of the 1920s, as was the four-story Masonic Temple Office Building, which was constructed in 1929 directly south of the Alridge Hotel.

Built in 1929, the 21-story building was designed by the same architects ( Shreve & Lamb ) who later designed the Empire State Building in New York City.

The current headquarters, the RJR Plaza Building, is 16 stories tall and was completed in 1982 adjacent to the original 1929 Reynolds Building.

More recent noteworthy examples include The Dakin Building in Brisbane, California, and the Gulf Building in Houston, Texas, which when constructed in 1929 had a porcelain logo on its exterior.

** Dalhousie University's Studley Campus buildings include the Science Building, 1913 – 15 ; MacDonald Memorial Library, 1914 – 15 ; Shirreff Hall Women's Residence, 1920 ; Arts Building, 1921 – 22 ; Medical Science Laboratory, 1921 – 22 ; Provincial Archives Building, 1929 ; Gymnasium Building, 1931.

A unified set of regulations, applicable to all areas, was issued in 1929, and a complementary series of demographic inquiries in selected areas was instituted at the same time.

The old Morse system was replaced locally by the Simplex modern automatic method in 1929, when Ellamae Heckman ( Wilcox ) was manager of the Western Union office.

The very first recording was made for RCA Victor in 1929 with Nathaniel Shilkret conducting the Victor Symphony Orchestra, drawn from members of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor the outstanding film achievements of the 1927 / 1928 film season.

Bates was more fortunate, as the song's popularity was well established by the time of her death in 1929.

A third generation was led by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ( 1929 – ) and includes Jacques Revel, and Philippe Ariès ( 1914 – 1984 ), who joined the group in 1978.

The Annales was founded and edited by Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre in 1929, while they were teaching at the University of Strasbourg and later in Paris.

A complete periodic table of antimatter was envisaged by Charles Janet in 1929.

Fleming published his discovery in 1929, in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology, but little attention was paid to his article.

It was not until the completion of the Paimio Sanatorium ( 1929 ) and Viipuri Library ( 1935 ) that Aalto first achieved world attention in architecture.

The marriage was dissolved in 1929 and Shapiro / Tanaroff acknowledged his paternity, but never married Hanka Grothendieck.

In the Fort Worth Star-Telegram daily newspaper ( morning edition ) 19 September 1970, J. Howard " Doc " DeCelles states that he was actually the victim of the first skyjacking in December 1929.

In 1929 a new church in Bath was dedicated to Saint Ælfheah, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott in homage to the ancient Roman church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin.

The novel was first published in November and December 1928 in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung and in book form in late January 1929.

The libretto was mainly written in early 1927 and the music was finished in the spring of 1929, although both text and music were partly revised by the authors later.

The club played its earliest seasons at the Motovelodromo Appio stadium, before settling in the working-class streets of Testaccio, where it built an all-wooden ground Campo Testaccio ; this was opened in November 1929.

Abacá was first cultivated on a large scale in Sumatra in 1925 under the Dutch, who had observed its cultivation in the Philippines for cordage since the ninteenth century, followed up by plantings in Central America in 1929 sponsored by the U. S. Department of Agriculture.

In 1929, Mojżesz Presburger showed that the theory of natural numbers with addition and equality ( now called Presburger arithmetic in his honor ) is decidable and gave an algorithm that could determine if a given sentence in the language was true or false.

With the exception of the first term, it has been held by the Labour Party, and for seven years was held by Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister in 1924 and from 1929 to 1935.

Agner Krarup Erlang ( January 1, 1878 – February 3, 1929 ) was a Danish mathematician, statistician and engineer, who invented the fields of traffic engineering and queueing theory.

In 1927 welding pioneer Stefan Bryła designed the first welded road bridge in the world, which was later built across the river Słudwia Maurzyce near Łowicz, Poland in 1929.