Between 1913 and 1929, its agricultural exports rose from US $ 3 million ( US $ 2 million from bananas ) to US $ 25 million ( US $ 21 million from bananas ).

Companies such as DuPont, US Steel, and General Electric that merged during the Great Merger Movement were able to keep their dominance in their respective sectors through 1929, and in some cases today, due to growing technological advances of their products, patents, and brand recognition by their customers.

One 1941 property from the Waco, Texas-based Alamo Plaza Courts chain, the first US motel chain ( founded 1929, expansion stopped with the departure of the chain's founders in the 1950s ), still stands on U. S. Route 190 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, but has been declining steadily since a change of ownership in the mid-1980s.

Warren G. Harding had first suggested US involvement in 1923, and in 9 December 1929, three court protocols were signed by him.

File: US carriers Bremerton 1929. jpg | The complete U. S. Navy carrier force at Puget Sound, 1929

In 1929 before the Great Depression hit, over 25, 000 tons of stainless steel were manufactured and sold in the US.

The US top marginal income tax rate went from 25 % to 63 % in 1932 and to 79 % in 1936 while the bottom rate increased over 10 fold from. 375 % in 1929 to 4 % in 1932 Successful attacks on partially backed currencies which forced many countries off the gold standard and reduced confidence in the financial system, and a financial system, further damaged by the bank panics of the 1930s were also factors, as was inclement weather such as the drought resulting in the US Dust Bowl.

* Television Apparatus and the Like, US patent for Baird's colour television system, filed 1929 ( in UK, 1928 ). n

U. S. imports decreased 66 % from US $ 4. 4 billion ( 1929 ) to US $ 1. 5 billion ( 1933 ), and exports decreased 61 % from US $ 5. 4 billion to US $ 2. 1 billion, both decreases much more than the 50 % decrease of the GDP.

The first US graduate of Gem-A's Diploma Course, in 1929, was Robert Shipley who later established both the Gemological Institute of America and the American Gem Society.

The 1929 US Ruby Red ( of the Redblush variety ) has the first grapefruit patent.

From 1929 onwards the U. S. used Zyklon B to disinfect the freight trains and clothes of Mexican immigrants entering the US.

On September 14, 1929, the US Post office issued a stamp honoring General Wayne and which commemorated the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Fallen Timbers.

He was elected to the US Senate first by the Kansas Legislature ( in 1906 ), and then by popular vote ( in 1914, 1920 and 1926 ), serving one six-year term from 1907 to 1913, and then most of three terms from 1915 to 1929 ( when he became Vice President ).

* The Beverly Shores South Shore Railroad Station ( built 1929, added 1989-Building # 89000411 ), Broadway Avenue and US 12

A c. 1730 building across from Augustus Lutheran Church served as the US Post Office until 1929, when operations were moved to a larger regional location.

“ A Wet, Nasty Job ”: Army Engineers and the Nicaragua Canal Survey of 1929 – 1931.

The ( present ) Grand Union Canal came into being on 1 January 1929, extended in 1932.

In 1929, he went to Nicaragua as part of an expedition whose purpose was to conduct a survey for the Inter-Oceanic Nicaragua Canal.

In 1929, Groves departed for Nicaragua in charge of a company of the 1st Engineers as part of an expedition whose purpose was to conduct a survey for the Inter-Oceanic Nicaragua Canal.

Originally, the bridge over the Point Pleasant Canal, the Lovelandtown Bridge, was constructed in 1929 for a continuous route above Bridge Avenue.

The canal later became part of the Grand Union Canal in 1929.

The Grand Canal wooden bulkhead and walk were rebuilt in concrete in 1929.

In January 1929 Lexington along with and Saratoga participated in Fleet Problem IX, a simulated aerial attack on the Panama Canal.

In 1927, the Regent's Canal Company bought the Grand Junction Canal and the Warwick Canals, the merged entity coming into force on 1 January 1929 as the Grand Union Canal Company.

When the Grand Union Canal Company acquired the Regent's Canal in 1929, it became part of that network.

In 1929, he published his first novel, Rome Haul, a work about the Erie Canal.

In February 1929 he went to France Field, Panama Canal Zone, where he was an Engineering Officer with the 7th Observation Squadron.

The river underwent considerable change in the 1790s, when the Grand Junction Canal ( which became part of the Grand Union Canal in 1929 ) was routed along the valley, and joined the river channel for part of its course.

The canal was bought by the Regent's Canal and from 1 January 1929 now forms the southern half of the Grand Union Main Line from London to Birmingham.

The Regent's Canal bought the Grand Junction Canal and the three Warwick canals, and from 1 January 1929 they became part of the ( new ) Grand Union Canal.

It was there that Ricketts wrote " Dunedin " ( published 1928 ), and returning to the United Kingdom aboard the New Zealand Shipping Company's S. S. Remuera via the Panama Canal, Ricketts was moved to compose the march " Old Panama " ( published 1929 ).

* Old Panama ( 1929 )-Ricketts returned from Dunedin by way of the Panama Canal

The Grand Junction Canal became part of the Grand Union Canal in 1929, following amalgamation with the Regents Canal, the Warwick and Birmingham Canal and the Warwich and Napton Canal.

Under the administration of Herbert Hoover, the Agriculture Marketing Act of 1929 established the Federal Farm Board with a revolving fund of half a billion dollars.

The second year, 1929, there were no nominations at all, although the Academy has a list of unofficial titles which were under consideration by the Board of Judges.

The layout of the city was significantly improved by the approval of the city's first zoning ordinance and the creation of a Zoning Board in 1929.

Cotton Valley is the home of the Marlon Pope Special Learning Center, named for Chester Marlon Pope ( 1929 – 1987 ), a former Republican member of the Webster Parish School Board.

Prior to 1929, high school students attended Central High School in Paterson, before the Board of Education voted to send students to Ramsey High School in Ramsey instead.

The Eugenics Board of North Carolina ( EBNC ) was a State Board of the state of North Carolina formed in July 1933 by the North Carolina State Legislature by the passage of House Bill 1013, entitled ' An Act to Amend Chapter 34 of the Public Laws of 1929 of North Carolina Relating to the Sterilization of Persons Mentally Defective '.

The 1929 law also expanded the review process to four reviewers, namely: The Commissioner of Charities and Public Welfare of North Carolina, The Secretary of the State Board of Health of North Carolina, and the Chief Medical Officers of any two institutions for the " feeble-minded or insane " for the State of North Carolina.

The Irish Prison Board contemplated reopening it as a prison during the 1920s but all such plans were finally abandoned in 1929.

* See the silent films Beaver People ( 1928 ) and Beaver Family ( 1929 ), National Film Board of Canada

The city of Tulsa purchased the airport, then named Tulsa Municipal Airport, in 1929, and put its supervision under the Tulsa Park Board.

Katharine Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl, wife of the eighth Duke, was Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education from 1924 to 1929, the first woman to serve in a Conservative government.

During a distinguished career he was appointed CMG in 1924 and CB in 1929 for public service with the Board of Trade.

Although Reed was a Democrat, his reputation as a corporate agricultural lawyer led President Hoover to appoint him the new general counsel of the Federal Farm Board on November 7, 1929.

In response to the St. Francis Dam disaster, California Legislature created a dam safety program in 1929 and the California Department of Water Resources was created in 1956 by Governor Goodwin Knight following severe flooding across Northern California in 1955, combining the Division of Water Resources of the Department of Public Works with the State Engineer's Office, the Water Project Authority, and the State Water Resources Board.

In 1929, Amin was appointed as a member of Mymensingh Local Board, and later became a member of Mymensingh District Board in 1930.

Great great nephew Jerome Davis Greene ( 1874 – 1959 ): President, Lee, Higginson & Company from 1917 to 1932 ; Secretary, Harvard University Corporation from 1905 to 1910 & 1934-1943 ; General Manager of the Rockefeller Institute 1910-1012, assistant and secretary to John D. Rockefeller Jr. as Trustee, Rockefeller Institute ; Trustee, Rockefeller Foundation ; Trustee, Rockefeller General Education Board from 1910 to 1939. executive secretary, American Section-Allied Maritime Transport Council, 1918 Joint Secretary of the Reparations, Paris Peace Conference, 1919 ; Chairman, American Council Institute of Pacific Relations, 1929 – 32 ; Trustee, Brookings Institution of Washington from 1928 to 1945 ; and a founding member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

In 1929 the Main Roads Board deviated the route north from Old Bowenfels to Marrangaroo, using trunk road 55 ( Mudgee Road ).

Image: Schoolboardoffices. jpg | Offices of the London School Board by Bodley and Garner ( 1872-76 ; demolished 1929

He later served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Governor of Puerto Rico ( 1929 – 32 ), Governor-General of the Philippines ( 1932 – 33 ), Chairman of the Board of American Express Company, and Vice-President at Doubleday Books, and as a Brigadier General in the United States Army.

During his tenure as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, the 1929 Stock Market Crash occurred and the United States went into an economic depression.

The Board under Young disapproved this step, however Young himself was not fully convinced that the policy of using pressure would work and refused to sign the 1929 Annual Report of the Board because it contained parts favorable to this policy.