The World in 1930 the year a ninth planet turned up

Gandhi walked about 240 miles to the sea, roughly ten miles a day for 24 days straight. People joined him along the road the whole way, and near the end the line of walkers stretched for about two miles.

Life back then

Money got tighter month by month, and shops fought hard for what people still had. Grocers started stacking goods on open shelves and letting shoppers fill their own baskets, an idea a New York store called King Kullen pushed hard that August. Bread turned up sliced in a wrapper in more and more towns, and a few Massachusetts stores put out cardboard packs of frozen peas and fish. Children hung around the radio for the adventure serials and read the first Nancy Drew mysteries, which came out that year.

The year in 8 events

• 🔭Feb 18 Clyde Tombaugh spots Pluto on photographic plates at an observatory in Arizona.
• 🧂Mar 12 Gandhi sets out on a long walk to the sea to protest the British tax on salt in India.
• ✈️May 24 Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, the first woman to fly alone from England to Australia.
• 🏙️May 27 The Chrysler Building opens in New York. It is the tallest in the world for about eleven months.
• 📉Jun 17 President Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley tariff. Other countries raise their own tariffs in reply and trade shrinks.
• ⚽Jul 30 Uruguay beats Argentina 4 to 2 in Montevideo to win the first World Cup.
• 🗳️Sep 14 Germans vote and the Nazi party jumps from 12 seats in parliament to 107.
• 👑Nov 2 Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia at a ceremony in Addis Ababa.

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