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Cities Service Becomes a Billion Dollar Corporation
| 1930 | The first jet engine was invented. |
| 1930 | The first public television broadcast took place in the United States. |
| 1930 | The Oklahoma City Field produces 36.4 million barrels of oil, 4th largest of American fields. |
| 1930 | Cities Service buys a bulk lubricants plant and warehouse in Chicago. |
| 1931 | The Art Deco style Empire State Building was constructed in New York as the world$#146;s tallest building (at the time). |
| 1931 | Cities Service becomes a billion dollar corporation with 25,000 employees. |
| 1932 | Franklin D Roosevelt elected President of the United States. |
| 1933 | Adolf Hitler named Chancellor of Germany. |
| 1934 | Gunman and bandit John Dillinger shot and killed by federal agents outside a movie theatre. |
| 1935 | Congress enacts the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), which provided even stronger government support for organized labor. |
| 1935 | W. Alton Jones, as Senior Vice President of Cities Service testifies against the Wheeler-Rayburn Bill (Public Utilities Act of 1935 which would break up the utility companies). |
| 1935 | Venezuela’s per capita gross domestic product was Latin America’s highest. |
| 1936 | Jesse Owens, an African-American athlete competing for the United States, wins four gold medals in the track and field competition at the Berlin Olympics. |
| 1936 | Cities Service marketing moves from Chicago to Tulsa. |
| 1936 | At the close of the year Cities Service was comprised of 24 petroleum companies, 45 electric companies and 15 natural gas companies. |
| 1937 | Henry L. Doherty received the Anthony Lucas Medal for “Distinguished Achievement for Improving the Technique of Finding and Producing Oil.” |
| 1937 | More than 50 feet long and 8 feet high, the first programmable calculator is built, the predecessor to the modern computer. |
| 1937 | A Venezuelan oil workers’ strike accomplished significant improvements in working conditions in the domestic oil industry. |
| 1938 | Chester Carlson develops an electronic dry copying process called xerography-the predecessor to today's copy machines. |
| 1939 | Germany invades Poland, starting World War II. |
| 1939 | RCA exhibits television to the public at the World’s Fair in New York City. |
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