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Chronology of Events xxiv 1927 The first “talking picture,” The Jazz Singer, is released. 1928 Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly across the Atlantic. 1929 Herbert Hoover becomes thirty-first president of the United States the stock market crash known as Black Friday in New York sig- nals the beginning of the Great Depression. 1932 Child actress Shirley Temple makes her film debut. 1933 Prohibition ends Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes thirty-second president of the United States men’s tennis star René Lacoste introduces his own line of clothing S. H. Camp and Company introduces sized cups for bras, using the alphabetical sizes. 1934 Hayes production code is introduced in Hollywood to censor nudity, sex, and violence in film Levi’s introduces jeans for women, “Lady Levi’s.” 1935 Nylon, the first fully synthetic fiber, is invented by the DuPont Corporation. 1939 World War II begins the films Gone with the Wind and The Women both premier. 1941 The United States enters World War II after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. 1942 Japanese internment camps are established the U.S. War Pro- duction Board (WPB) issues order L-85 to reduce textiles’ use in women’s wear. 1945 World War II ends Harry S. Truman becomes thirty-third presi- dent of the United States. 1947 Christian Dior shows the first New Look collection in Paris Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to break the color barrier to play in modern Major League Baseball. 1948 The Cold War begins. 1950 Color TV becomes available. 1953 Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes thirty-fourth president of the United States. 1955 Rosa Parks begins the Montgomery Bus Boycott by refusing to move to the back of the bus Rebel without a Cause is released Sloan Wilson’s novel The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit is published. 1956 Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show on September 9.