In 1936, the company decided to concentrate on road cars.

By 1936, the Slingerland company introduced a wooden solid body electric model.

Although Gibson was not the first commercial producer to make an electric guitar, the company made the first successfully-marketed electric guitar, the ES150 in 1936.

* In 1936, the Marconi Wireless Telegraph company patented the first practical application of the technology, " The Liquid Crystal Light Valve ".

A new company called Parnall Aircraft was formed and the Heck passed to Parnall ownership, renamed the Parnall Heck it set a new record for the run from Cape Town to England of 6 days, 8 hours and 27 minutes in November 1936.

Wearing Gulf Oil company colors and logos, the Grumman G-22 " Gulfhawk II ", registered NR1050, was delivered in December 1936, and in 1938 Maj. Williams flew it on a tour of Europe.

The final section was retained to provide a wharf for the railway company, which was used until 1936, when it passed to the Commissioners of Sewers and was filled in.

III, Ann Miller claimed that MGM was on the verge of bankruptcy at the time Broadway Melody of 1936 was made, and it ( along with subsequent Powell films ) became so popular the company became profitable again.

Until recently the country's oil industry was fully controlled by the state company YPFB, established in 1936 with the mission to develop, refine and distribute oil resources.

Huenges left the company in 1936 and the DAF company was now completely in the hands of the van Doorne brothers.

In 1935 the company went public and in 1936 Benjamin Jowett retired.

* Chesterfield Motion Pictures Corporation, a film company active from 1925 to 1936 until it was merged into Republic Pictures

In 1936 when the lead in touring company of Orson Welles ' Voodoo Macbeth ( Maurice Evans ) fell ill, Welles stepped temporarily into the part and played the role in blackface.

She married John William Kendall Taylor, owner of a confectionery company, in 1936.

It was sold in 1936 to Spreckels Sugar Company, which is the parent company of Holly Sugar.

1936 when the company was founded until approximately 1966.

At the end of 1936, the George F. Lee Coal Co. still worked both the Chauncey mine and breaker, producing 38, 712 tons of coal, but by 1940, the company was bankrupt and in receivership.

In 1936, the company designed and began flying a simplified version of the Phantom known as the Luscombe 90, or Model 4.

Brown, the expatriate manager of the company, in the first elections for some of the Legislative Council seats in 1936.

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.

In 1936 the previously separate car company was merged with the Delaunay Belleville parent.

In 1936, along with Frank Malina and Jack Parsons, he founded a company Aerojet to manufacture JATO rocket motors.

* Katherine Dunham-African-American dancer, and anthropologist, originally a ballet dancer she founded her first company Ballet Negre in 1936 and later the Katherine Dunham Dance Company based in Chicago, Illinois.

Reports that the venerable liner, which has been in service since 1936, was to be retired struck a nostalgic note in many of us.

This tax was discontinued in 1936.

Linda accepted the reproach, which was something she did rarely in all her life and most rarely in that summer of 1936 when she was by all odds the prettiest and brightest young woman west of the Allegheny Mountains, and John was surely one of the handsomer and brighter young men around Pittsburgh.

" The term made an impact into English pulp science fiction starting from Jack Williamson's The Cometeers ( 1936 ) and the distinction between mechanical robots and fleshy androids was popularized by Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future ( 1940 – 1944 ).

( This building was in fact built in 1936, decades later than Poirot fictionally moved in.

Cofounder Marc Bloch ( 1886 – 1944 ) was a quintessential modernist who studied at the elite École Normale Supérieure, and in Germany, serving as a professor at the University of Strasbourg until he was called to the Sorbonne in Paris in 1936 as professor of economic history.

Thus, during the abdication crisis of 1936, caused by Edward VIII's desire to marry Wallis Simpson, the consent of all realms concerned, along with, in some cases, new acts of parliament, was required in Britain and throughout the British Dominions to allow for Edward's stepping aside and to ensure that if he had any children they would have no claim to the thrones.

The Australian Constitution, as was noted during the crisis of 1936, contains no power for the federal parliament to legislate with respect to the monarchy.

The book remained in manuscript and was not published until 1936.

* 1936: The site of Manseibashi Station was closed ( later the Transportation Museum — now closed ).

Alfred Edward Housman (; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936 ), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad.

In 1936, Whorf was appointed Honorary Research Fellow in Anthropology at Yale, and he was invited by Franz Boas to serve on the committee of the Society of American Linguistics ( later Linguistic Society of America ).

To clarify American sovereignty, Executive Order 7358 was issued on May 13, 1936.

The 1931 census was postponed to 1936 because of the Great Depression.

The reversion to this old regime was formalized under the Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Turkish Straits of July 1936.

The first use of this torch was for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.

His 153 not out in Bridgetown, Barbados, during West Indies ' 2 – 2 home series draw against Australia in * 1998 – 1999 was deemed the second greatest Test innings ever played, behind Bradman's 270 against England in the Third Test of the 1936 – 1937 series at Melbourne.

Charles Hardin Holley ( September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959 ), known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll.

Charles Hardin Holley was born on September 7, 1936, in Lubbock, Texas, to Lawrence Odell and Ella Pauline ( Drake ) Holley.

Ownership of Balmoral, along with Sandringham House in Norfolk, was inherited by Edward VIII on his accession in 1936.

Growth was limited by economic conditions caused by the great depression but thanks in part to the introduction of the metal can in 1936 Budweiser ’ s sales began to climb again.