What radios were used in the 1930s?

For the radio, the 1930s was a golden age. At the start of the decade 12 million American households owned a radio, and by 1939 this total had exploded to more than 28 million. As technology improved radios became smaller and cheaper. …

How did the radio help people in the Great Depression?

Radios provided a much-needed distraction from the hardships of the Great Depression. They provided a social outlet as well. Radios provided reassurance. An estimated 60 million people listened to President Roosevelt’s first fireside chat about the bank crisis (March 12, 1933).

What was farming like in the 1930s?

Farmers Grow Angry and Desperate. In the early 1930s prices dropped so low that many farmers went bankrupt and lost their farms. In some cases, the price of a bushel of corn fell to just eight or ten cents. Some farm families began burning corn rather than coal in their stoves because corn was cheaper.

Why was radio so important in the 1930s?

Since radio’s beginnings in the early 1920s, industry and government leaders promoted it as the great homogenizer, a cultural uplift project that could, among other things, help modernize and acculturate rural areas. The challenge was how to reach these areas, many of which received few or no radio signals in the mid-1930s.

Where can I find a radio broadcast from the 1920s?

This undated broadcast is archived by the Library of American Broadcasting at the University of Maryland. Listen to the audio clip while reading the transcript. What characterized 1920s radio entertainment?

What was the plight of farm workers in the 1930s?

Loftis has written a detailed and well documented 14-chapter book about the major figures who led efforts to publicize the plight of farm workers in the 1930s, the writers and photographers who interpreted the farm workers’ story for the American public.

When did the farm worker union start and end?

A subsequent Taylor student, Stuart Jamieson, wrote the definitive history of farm worker unions between 1900 and 1950, as well as documenting the activities of the Associated Farmers, created in 1934 to prevent farm worker unionization.