Three Seconds Late

Well, it is alternate history after all, and this does sound like the sort of thing that could happen in the British mandates in our universe. So no offense should be taken.
 
Now, I have two topics I could cover.

There's the RAK 1 rocket, which would be applicable to the rocketry part of the TL.

Or I cover the Wall Street Crash and the following policies enacted by Smith. This one would be a bit harder to write and less well written.

I'm sorry for continually keeping this thread alive only with occasional updates, but I really want it to develop and continue.
 
I just realized...I have the American Liberty Leauge (kinda like the Tea Party) working with Richard Whitney (a convicted embezzler) to try and solve the Depression with tactics that may lead to a second one. While dealing with Mexican terrorists.

Dear God, what have I done...
 
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, or "The Black Week" as it was called, was the beginning of one of America's greatest depressions in the 20th century. On Tuesday, October 29th stock prices fell at an enormous rate. The previous week had been marked by soaring and plummeting prices due to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff being debated in Congress. The Progressives from Mexico, some Republicans, and most Democrats opposed the bill. On Tuesday, however, it all collapsed. Stocks were being sold at a gargantuan rate that day, with many people seeing their entire lives lost in front of their eyes.

President Al Smith was soon altered to this problem, and many scholars say he had to make a choice. He could either use it as political leverage against the Tariff and hope it wasn't fatal to the economy, or take swift action and stop it. Smith eventually went with the latter and decided to try and create a short-term recuperation plan. Smith worked with Richard Whitney who represented many banking companies to try and find a solution.

Smith's overall plan for the Depression was to create a government-supported monopoly style economy. He would help several companies already working with him to absorb others and help rebound the market. The plan was to be called the "American Corporation and Government Cooperation Plan" or the ACGCP.

From, AMERICA, HOME OF THE GR$$D
 
Robert Goddard's rocketry projects were finished by October 1929. He had field tested the rockets them again and again, and now the Army and Navy would accept them. It had been seen that both vehicles and possibly planes could support the rockets as transportation. On October 3rd, 1929, the United States of America's military welcomed in a new era of rocketry.

Goddard, whose military contract had expired, was given a second one for continued rocket development. Goddard himself later said in an interview in 1957 that he was lucky to have gotten the contract before the economy went under. Goddard was to see if the rockets could be improved as weapons of war, with explosives or such. The personal rocket launchers, or PRLs, that were conceived were to be fully put into the Army for ground combat. The ability of the rockets on vehicles was also to be expanded upon, with weaponry on them being a remote, but possible thought.

From, Rocket's Red Glare

"Long ago, I said it was hard to say what was impossible. Now, I see that impossibility is impossible itself."
-Robert Goddard, day of the moon landing.
 
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