L. Ron Hubbard left college in the Depression of the 1930’s and went on to learn about life out in the world. He said of this period;

“. . . my writing financed research and this included expeditions which were conducted in order to investigate primitive peoples to see if I could find a common denominator of existence which would be workable.”

To fund that research through the Great Depression, L. Ron Hubbard embarked upon the first leg of a fifty–year writing career. By the mid–1930’s, he was among the most widely read authors in the famed heyday of American pulp fiction. He also wrote several memorable screenplays during Hollywood’s Golden Age, and is still remembered for his work on various box office blockbusters and a classic Clark Gable film.