George Frost was in the news in 1922. He was eighteen years old at the time, and president of the Land High School Radio Club. Frost fitted the first automobile radio to the passenger door of a Ford Model T.
Irving Langmuir was a chemist with the General Electric Research Laboratory. In 1927, he invented atomic hydrogen welding. This made it possible to weld stainless steel, which could not be joined by older welding methods.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3468301016.html
Franklin D. Roosevelt was in the news at this time. He was the president and he was trying to get the United States out of the Great Depression. He set up the New Deal, which did in fact help.
http://www.nps.gov/archive/elro/glossary/roosevelt-franklin.htm
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