From May 1934 until October 1935, Armstrong conducted the first large scale field tests of his FM radio technology from a laboratory constructed by RCA on the 85th floor of the Empire State Building.

As David Bordwell describes, technological improvements continued at a swift pace: " Between 1932 and 1935, Electric and RCA created directional microphones, increased the frequency range of film recording, reduced ground noise ... and extended the volume range.

RCA sold its stake in EMI in 1935, but due to its earlier takeover of the Victor label in 1929, RCA retained the North and South American rights to the " Nipper " trademark.

The new band was popular from almost the moment it signed with RCA Victor with " On Treasure Island ", the first of four hits for the new band in 1935.

By October 1935, Vladimir Zworykin, George Ashmun Morton, and Louis Malter of RCA in Camden, NJ submitted their manuscript describing the first comprehensive experimental and theoretical analysis of a multiple dynode tube — the device later called a photomultiplier — to Proc.

RCA sold its interest in EMI in 1935, but EMI continued to distribute RCA recordings on the HMV label.

In September, 1935, the Dorsey Brothers band legally became the " Jim Dorsey Orchestra ", after Jimmy found out that Tommy Dorsey now had his own band, and had signed a recording contract with RCA Victor.

Seven years later, in late 1935, Zworykin's photograph appeared on the cover of the trade journal Electronics, holding an early RCA photomultiplier prototype.

The orchestra's first recordings were made in July 1935 for RCA Victor, including the first complete recording of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.

On December 1, 1935, during the Broadway run, Todd Duncan and Anne Brown performed " Summertime ", " I Got Plenty o ' Nuttin '" and " Bess, You Is My Woman Now " on NBC's The Magic Key of RCA radio program.

" As head of television development at Radio Corporation of America ( RCA ), Zworykin submitted a patent application in November 1931, and it was issued in 1935.

Some examples of this are the addition and subsequent destruction of Rivera's Man at the Crossroads in the RCA Building ( 1933 – 34 ), the Italian invasion of Ethiopia ( 1935 ), labor strikes against Little Steel ( 1937 ) and the Dies Committee ’ s assault on the Federal Theatre Project ( 1938 ) ( Weales 2000 ).

Since both he and MacDonald were under contract to RCA Victor between 1935 and 1938, this allowed several popular duets from their films.

‘ 7th ( Toronto ) Regiment, CA ’ on October 1, 1933 ; ‘ 7th ( Toronto ) Regiment, RCA ’ on June 3, 1935 ; ‘ 7th ( Reserve ) ( Toronto ) Regiment, RCA ’ on November 7, 1940 ; and ‘ 7th ( Reserve ) ( Toronto ) Group, RCA ( CA )’ on October 1, 1942 ; converted and redesignated ‘ Royal Canadian Artillery, 2nd Division ’ on April 1, 1946 ; and ‘ Royal Canadian Artillery, 2nd Armoured Division ’ on June 19, 1947.

In 1935, the all-electronic CRT system was authorized as a " field test " project and NBC converted a radio studio in the RCA Building — now the GE Building – in New York City's Rockefeller Center for television use.

* Highlights from Porgy and Bess ( RCA 1935 ), recorded days after the premiere by popular white opera singers with Gershwin's approval.

It was redesignated the 9th Field Brigade, Canadian Artillery on 1 July 1925 then as the 9th Field Brigade, RCA, on 3 June 1935, as the 9th ( Reserve ) Field Brigade, RCA, on 7 November 1940 and finally the 44th ( Reserve ) Field Regiment, RCA, on 24 June 1942.

It was redesignated as the 34th Field Battery, CA, on 1 July 1925, then the 34th Field Battery, RCA, on 3 June 1935, then as the 34th ( Reserve ) Field Battery, RCA, on 7 November 1940 and finally as the 34th Anti-Tank Battery ( Self-Propelled ), RCA, on 1 April 1946.

A 1935 Rolls-Royce Moxie Horsemobile was sold for $ 55, 000 at the May 20, 2011, Mecum Auction in Indianapolis, Indiana.

The initial purchaser had paid £ 5, 250 for it on its completion, and subsequent sales were for £ 861 in 1935, £ 265 in 1942, and was " bought in " at £ 252 in 1960 ( having failed to meet its reserve ), but when the same picture was auctioned at Christies in New York in May 1995, it sold for £ 1. 75 million.

In 1935, Harry was put on trial ; after a mistrial, Harry sold the company's movie theaters, at least for a short time, and the case was never reopened.

White's expansion and modernization of Strunk's 1935 revised edition yielded the writing style manual informally known as Strunk & White, the first edition of which sold approximately two million copies in 1959.

White's expansion and modernization of the 1935 edition sold more than two million copies.

In 1927, it sold about 27, 000 copies every week ; by 1935, its circulation had reached around 480, 000.

In 1935 the Moretti-Harrah Company was sold to B. F. Coggins of Atlanta and T. A.

The ranch he owned at the time was eventually sold to the Sequeira family in 1935.

It wasn't until 1935 that the last of the property owned by R. E. Olds was finally sold.

The land changed hands numerous times before being purchased during the Great Depression by the New Mexico Rural Rehabilitation Corporation, which in turn sold it to the federal Resettlement Administration in 1935.

The port was sold in 1935.

The MG business was Morris's personal property until 1935 when he sold MG into his holding company, Morris Motors Limited, restructuring his holdings before issuing ( preference ) shares in Morris Motors to the public in 1936.

Originally owned personally by William Morris, MG was sold in 1935 to Morris Motors ( itself a member of the Morris Organizations later called the Nuffield Organisation ) a change that was to have serious consequences for MG, particularly its motor-sport activities.

In 1935 the Starr Piano Company sold some Gennett masters, and the Gennett and Champion trademarks to Decca Records.

It was first sold in 1935 as 16 mm movie film.

Schlesinger sold Pacific Title & Art in 1935 to concentrate on his animation studio.

* Turkey – According to one source, two were sold to Turkey in 1935, along with 60 T-26, five T-27 tankettes, and about 60 BA-6 armoured cars to form the 1st Tank Regiment of the 2nd Cavalry Division at Luleburgaz.

Kingsford Smith sold the plane to the Australian Government in 1935 for £ 3000 so it could be put on permanent display for the public.

Indeed, traditional verse was what sold in Canadaa all through this period ; and it was what Canadian Poetry Magazine, founded by Pratt in 1935, emphasized.

An engineer, Phillips was an acquaintance of John P. Thompson, who sold his self-centering design to Phillips in 1935 after failing to interest manufacturers.

Villard sold the magazine in 1935.

In the 1930s Daisy Outdoor Products came out with a Buck Rogers Rocket Pistol ( 1933 ), Disintegrator Pistol ( 1934 ), and Liquid Helium Pistol ( 1935 ) that sold in record numbers.

The issue was sufficiently potent in 1935 to spark secession from the American Federation of Labor of its industrial union members.

After thirty days of working with Wilson, Smith drank his last drink on June 10, 1935, the date marked by AA for its anniversaries.

The urban district was abolished in 1935, with most of its area passing to Pontypool urban district, and a small area going to Abercarn UD.

As of 1935, its chief industries were shipbuilding, tanning, and pottery.

George Lansbury, a convinced pacifist, resigned as leader at the 1935 Labour Party conference after the party voted in favour of sanctions against Italy for its aggression against Abyssinia.

Attlee led Labour through the 1935 general election, which saw the party stage a partial recovery from its disastrous performance in 1931.

In 1935 the Irish Free State was the first to introduce its own citizenship.

A series of papers published between 1931 and 1935 had its beginning on a trip from India to England in 1930,

He wrote his first published novel, Eclipse ( 1935 ), about a town and its people, in the social realist style, drawing on his years in Grand Junction.

The Mussolini government regarded the colony as a strategic base for future aggrandizement and ruled accordingly, using Eritrea as a base to launch its 1935 – 1936 campaign to colonize Ethiopia.

In 1935 Nazi Germany expanded the legality of abortion by amending its eugenics law, to promote abortion for women with hereditary disorders.

In 1935 under prime minister Muhammad Hashim, Afghanistan established a close relationship with Germany, a distinct change of relations in comparison to its usual position between the Russian and British spheres of influence.

While Howland Island was colonized in 1935 as a future aviation facility and is known in popular culture mostly because of its association with the last flight of Earhart and Noonan, no aircraft is known to have ever landed there, although anchorages nearby could be used by floatplanes and flying boats during World War II.

A male at the entrance of its nest, April 1935

* 1935 – The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its first congress.

* 1935 – The Dust Bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109 ° F ( 43 ° C ) in Chicago, Illinois and 104 ° F ( 40 ° C ) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

These included that of Dillinger, Alvin Karpis, and Machine Gun Kelly, which led to the Bureau's powers being broadened and it was given its new name in 1935: the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

In 1935, Sir Eric Phipps, the British Ambassador to Germany, complained to London about Ribbentrop's British associates in the Anglo-German Fellowship, that they created " false German hopes as in regards to British friendship and caused a reaction against it in England, where public opinion is very naturally hostile to the Nazi regime and its methods ".

He became a secretary of the Comintern in 1935, a post he held until its dissolution in 1943.

It also supported its claim with an unratified 1935 treaty between France and Italy, the colonial powers of Chad and Libya, respectively.

At its greatest extent from 28 September 1934 to 23 February 1935, it had 58 members.

* 1935 – Shah Reza Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, which means ' Land of the Aryans.

* 1935 – The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.

* 1935 – The China Clipper, the first transpacific mail and passenger service, takes off from Alameda, California for its first commercial flight.

Porgy and Bess ( 1935 ), influenced by jazz styles, and Candide ( 1956 ), with its sweeping, lyrical passages and farcical parodies of opera, both opened on Broadway but became accepted as part of the opera repertory.