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AUTOMOBILES OF THE INTERWAR ROMANIA

1936 Cadillac Series 70 Convertible Coupe in Bucharest The interwar period for Romania is a special period that included Greater Romanian Kingdom, the development of arts and technologies, and massive industrialization. Only in the interwar period cars became popular in Romania, especially because more and more people could afford such luxury. I decided to talk a little about the situation of drivers at that time, but also to present some vintage pictures (badly) colored by The Bunget. The statistical data is available only from 1926, but according to the book Automobile in Romania: History and Technique written by Chiriac Vasiliu, between 1922-1926 the import of cars strongly grew with an annual average of over 2000 units, so the number of cars in Romania was 11308 in 1926 (despite those 1,000 units in the pre-war period). In the next five years, the number of cars will almost reach 26,000, the increase being due to higher market involvement of foreign manufacturers such ...

1942 WALT DISNEY'S PROPAGANDA ANIMATED MOVIE

Walt Disney was a talented animator and a great businessman. He started his own company based on enthousiasm and created a new life for the art of animation. He was an artist, but also an American, and he did everything he could for his country. Today I would like to show an important thing he actually did for United States and will tell you how did he became an ambassador. Saludos Amigos is a 1942 American animated package film produced by Walt Disney. Set in Latin America, it is made up of four different segments; Donald Duck stars in two of them and Goofy stars in one. It also features the first appearance of José Carioca, the Brazilian cigar-smoking parrot. Saludos Amigos premiered in Rio de Janeiro on August 24, 1942 and was released in the United States on February 6, 1943. It garnered positive reviews and was theatrically reissued in 1949. Nelson Rockefeller, Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs In early 1941, before U.S. entry into World Wa...