That's sad, that such a great car company only lasted 37 years. 
‘Tis. The irony is that the country was turning a corner at the time and pulling out of the Great Depression
Actually, in 1937, the economy went into a decline even though up to 1936 it was in recovery from its depth of 1932, and the economy did not recover until 1939 when World War 2 began in Europe and the USA didn't really fully recover from the Great Depression until the attack of December 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor.