Through the Depression Era
by Mark Nye
The Year 1939 in Review
| 1939 Lives & Times |
| Best Movie |
Gone With The Wind |
| Best Actress |
Vivian Leigh - Gone With The Wind |
| Best Actor |
Robert Donat - Goodby Mr. Chips |
| Rose Bowl |
So. California beat Duke |
| NFL |
Green Bay Packers beat NY Giants |
| Birthdays |
Lily Tomlin |
| Broadway |
Yokel Boy starring Phil Silvers, Judy Canova and Buddy Ebsen
gave us the song Beer Barrel Polka. |
| Popular Songs |
God Bless America, Moonlight Serenade, Stairway To The Stars,
Over The Rainbow |
| Hollywood |
The Wizard of Oz with Judy Garland |
| Book |
John Steinbeck published Grapes of Wrath |
| Other |
World's Fair opened in New York City |
| News |
September 1939 - Hitler invades Poland and World War II
begins. |
| Glass Industry in 1939 |
| Federal |
Drops Madrid and Sharon |
| Jeannette |
Discontinues Cherry Blossom |
| MacBeth Evans |
Promoting Cremax and Chinex |
| Central |
Closes and is bought by Imperial. Etching plates and molds
found during Imperial liquidation. |
| Cambridge |
Arthur J. Bennett, who opened the company for the National
Glass Co.and later
purchased it and ran the company for almost 30 years as
it major stock holder,
sells controlling interest to his son-tn-law
W.L. Orme.
New etchings were Blossom Time and Chantilly |
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