Word: april
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Joseph George Strecker, 51, born in Galicia, Hot Springs, Ark. lunchroom proprietor and onetime U. S. Communist; and Mrs. Emma Howard, 41, Hot Springs widow; in Hot Springs. Last April Strecker's appeal from a deportation order went to the U. S. Supreme Court, which ruled that past membership in the Communist Party is insufficient grounds on which to deport an alien...
...dealers. Beginning of autumn, production ran at full blast. Last week it assembled 117,805 cars (against 102,905 last year). But Chrysler Corp., after its 54-day strike, has still to fill accumulated orders and stock its dealers. This may help sustain auto assemblies, regardless of January-April retail auto sales-and auto assemblies count 5.4% in the Federal Reserve production index...
...chart they are shown separately.) In early 1939 the trend of turnover in trade centres followed a course roughly parallel to that of industrial production as measured by the Federal Reserve Board. Trade centre turnover fell 9% from the first of the year to the end of April and then began gradually to rise. The Federal Reserve Board index fell 11.5% from its 104 high in December to 92 in May. This was the sagging period of the spring when business had failed to measure up to expectations...
Most Naval officers sided with the Admiral. They still had tongues in cheek when Charles Edison finally had the Navy award prizes for the best U. S. mosquito and subchaser designs (TIME, April 10), later let contracts to U. S. manufacturers for four 110-to 174-foot chasers eight 59-to 81-foot mosquitoes. Last week the Navy's Brass Hats ate crow. They conceded that: 1) their civilian Secretary was right, and 2) they now had to turn to the British for the best mosquito boats...
...Nitroparaffms. Last spring Chemist Henry Bohn Hass of Purdue announced production of two new explosives, "nibglycerol trinitrate" and "nibglycol dinitrate," by combining steam, nitrogen from air, methane and ethane from natural gas (TIME, April 17). Now dozens of other nitroparaffins similarly formed are available for making plastics, dyes, textiles, cosmetics, floor waxes, rubber...