JANUARY 4, 1937

MONDAY
1937 Coca-Cola advertising artwork
$1,000 INVESTED IN COKE STOCK (KO) IN 1937
WOULD HAVE MADE YOU $8,807,286 IN THE 2025 DATASET
Min Wage Hourly$0.29
Median Home Price$4,450.00
Gas Price Avg$0.19
Bread Price Avg$0.09
Movie Ticket Avg$0.29
First Class Stamp$0.03
Milk Price Avg$0.54
Top Movies From 1937
Show screen release and event cards
1 Saratoga
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Saratoga
2 Maytime
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Maytime
3 The Good Earth
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The Good Earth
4 Stella Dallas
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Stella Dallas
5 Rosalie
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Rosalie
6 Broadway Melody of 1938
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Broadway Melody of 1938
7 Captains Courageous
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Captains Courageous
8 Lost Horizon
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Lost Horizon
9 A Day at the Races
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A Day at the Races
10 Thin Ice
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Thin Ice
Green Light
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Green Light
The Life of the Party
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The Life of the Party
Wells Fargo
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Wells Fargo
The Milky Way
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The Milky Way
Dodsworth
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Dodsworth
Camille
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Camille
After the Thin Man
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After the Thin Man
The Story of Louis Pasteur
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The Story of Louis Pasteur
Things to Come
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Things to Come
Little Lord Fauntleroy
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
Green Pastures
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Green Pastures
Winterset
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Winterset

January 4, 1937 Trivia

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January 4, 1937

On January 4, 1937, news spread of a remarkable rescue operation that captivated the community: a cat trapped in a well was successfully retrieved, showcasing the compassion of local citizens. Meanwhile, the laundry industry repor...

Inventions & Breakthroughs of January 1937

Gadgets, lab surprises, odd bets, and future-shocks from this slice of the calendar.

1 Nylon
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Nylon
2 Microwave Radar Prototype
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Microwave Radar Prototype
3 Color Television Experiments
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Color Television Experiments
4 Electric Can Opener
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Electric Can Opener
5 Hydrogen Bomb Theory
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Hydrogen Bomb Theory
6 Turbojet Engine Test
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Turbojet Engine Test
7 Automatic Seat Belt Concept
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Automatic Seat Belt Concept
8 Magnetic Drum Memory
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Magnetic Drum Memory
9 Vacuum-Tube Computer Logic
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Vacuum-Tube Computer Logic
10 Photocopier Concept
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Photocopier Concept

The Sounds of

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Headlines From January 4, 1937

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  • Headline: Three-Week Rescue of a Hagerstown Cat. Impact: This heroic rescue sparked a nationwide trend of cat rescue operations, leading to the establishment of 'Cats Are Us', the world's first feline therapy organization. It also inadvertently led to more cats being thrown into wells for the sake of social media fame. Fact: Cats are known for their nine lives, but this one clearly took the 'live and let live' approach a bit too literally. Three weeks in a well? Talk about making a splash!.
  • Headline: Laundry Sales Show Increase. Impact: As laundry sales surged, so did the invention of the washing machine. This monumental shift in household chores led to a decline in family bonding time, ultimately resulting in the rise of sitcoms and reality TV to fill the void. Fact: Laundry is the only chore that can turn your favorite shirt into a tiny, shrunken version of itself. A real-life magic trick that leaves you wondering where it all went wrong.
  • Headline: AMERICAN OUTLOOK AS SEEN BY BERLIN; German Market Optimistic Regarding Financial Future of This Country.. Impact: This optimistic outlook led to a series of overly ambitious investments in American businesses, ultimately resulting in the widespread belief that buying stocks was as easy as tossing coins into a wishing well. Spoiler alert: it wasn't. Fact: Optimism from Berlin about America? Sounds like the beginning of a really bad joke, but hey, at least they weren't betting on the weather!.
  • Headline: LIQUOR INDUSTRY SETS RAPID PACE; Steadily Expanding Trade to Pay $600,000,000 Federal Taxes This Year.. Impact: The liquor industry's success led to a global obsession with cocktails, sparking a trend that resulted in the invention of the 'happy hour' and the regrettable morning-after headaches that followed. Fact: Who knew liquor could pay for so much? If only we could tax hangovers too, we might finally fix the national debt.
  • Headline: ' Napoleon's Hill' Cut in Two. Impact: This construction project inadvertently paved the way for future generations to create bizarrely named landmarks, leading to a world where every hill, rock, and tree has its own quirky titleβ€”because who wouldn't want to visit 'Waldo's Wobbly Rock'?. Fact: Cutting a hill in two sounds dramatic, but if only Napoleon had known he could just shave off the topβ€”instant hill upgrade!.

Wall Street Time Machine

The Right Call: A historical $1,000 investment comparison using the stored long-range dataset.
Rank #2
JNJ
Johnson & Johnson
Price in 1937
$0.06
Stored value
$3,433,941

Johnson & Johnson - If you invested $1,000 in 1937, it would be worth $3,433,941 today (3433.9x return)

Rank #3
PG
Procter & Gamble
Price in 1937
$0.25
Stored value
$586,657

Procter & Gamble - If you invested $1,000 in 1937, it would be worth $586,657 today (586.7x return)

🦸 Top 5 Comics
Detective Comics #1
Detective Comics #1
$1,200,000
Funny Picture Stories #1
Funny Picture Stories #1
$150
Detective Picture Stories #1
Detective Picture Stories #1
$1,500
Western Picture Stories #1
Western Picture Stories #1
$400
The Comics Magazine #1
The Comics Magazine #1
$100
🧸 Top 5 Toys
Monopoly
Monopoly
$200.00
Lincoln Logs
Lincoln Logs
$120.00
Tinkertoy
Tinkertoy
$200.00
Steelcraft Zeppelin
Steelcraft Zeppelin
$150.00
Kilgore Cap Guns
Kilgore Cap Guns
$150.00
⚾ Top 5 Trading Cards
Goudey Wide Pen Premiums V351 (Type 3) - Mickey Cochrane
Goudey Wide Pen Premiums V351 (Type 3) - Mickey Cochrane
$250,000
R69 Gum, Inc. - 'Horrors of War' #1 'Marco Polo Bridge Incident'
R69 Gum, Inc. - 'Horrors of War' #1 'Marco Polo Bridge Incident'
$10,000
Churchman's Cigarettes - Boxing Personalities - Jack Dempsey
Churchman's Cigarettes - Boxing Personalities - Jack Dempsey
$1,500
Stoltz 'Famous Aircraft of the World' - Focke-Wulf Fw 200
Stoltz 'Famous Aircraft of the World' - Focke-Wulf Fw 200
$250
Player's Cigarettes - Film Stars (Third Series) - Clark Gable
Player's Cigarettes - Film Stars (Third Series) - Clark Gable
$3,120.00