Word: aprill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a bad heart and a queasy stomach, Andrew Jackson May of Kentucky looked remarkably fit when his trial began last April. For a man on trial for conspiracy to defraud the Government, he was amazingly full of bluster. For a onetime chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, he was in the company of unsavory codefendants: the mysterious brothers Garsson,* owners of a shadowy wartime munitions empire. But Andy May was an amazing...
...familiar: the dead air, the unnatural darkness, the faint smell of dust. People in Woodward and the other towns of the pan-flat Oklahoma-Texas wheat belt (which lost over 150 citizens in the disastrous twister of April 9) shivered when they saw the new storm coming last week. They assumed that they were still on the main line and dived for storm cellars. They were understandably hasty-the twister struck 40 miles south in tiny Leedey, tore it apart and killed...
...turning point had been reached. In April, said the Department of Commerce, "the uninterrupted [business] expansion of more than a year was halted." The Bureau of Labor Statistics noted "several soft spots which will bear watching." Employment had begun to fall off slightly in the consumer soft-goods industries. Construction, which had been relied on to take up the slack, was one-sixth less in March than it had been in 1946. For the third consecutive month, new construction was under the corresponding 1946 figure...
...Board index slipped from 190% (1935-39 average: 100) to 187. Retailers, worried about possible price drops, were not buying as fast as they had been. As a result, the movement of goods from manufacturers slowed down. Another $450 million in goods piled up in manufacturers' inventories in April. This boosted them to $22 billion, almost twice the prewar peak...
...content with a good football season, the band management took the plunge in early December and arranged a full year's operations. Concerts this spring included an early April appearance in Sanders, where Milhaud's "Suite Francaise" and Prokofieff's "March" received their first New England performances, and two sessions at the Veterans' hospitals in Bedford and at Fort Devens...