Word: aug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest British cotton strike since the War ended. In Manchester, Blackburn, Oldham, a halfmillion Lancashire cotton workers trudged from their dingy yellow brick houses back to the mills, agreed to abide by the decision of an Arbitral Board of Five: two workers, two employers and an umpire (TIME, Aug...
...Austria. Normally U. S. tourists keep to their spartan schedule of cathedrals, art galleries, shops, with complete disregard of local politics. But since three bloody riots have been staged in the past fortnight by Austria's two pugnacious, irregular armies?the socialist Schutzbund and the reactionary Heim-wehr (TIME, Aug. 19)?and moreover since a third riot resulted in 48 woundings and three deaths, even the most earnest gallery-gazers felt it wise to leave Vienna...
...will revert to banditry, a profession which most of them forsook to join the colors. Last week Finance Minister T. V. Soong, efficient Harvard graduate, announced a bond issue of $30,750,000 to carry out his economy program of disbanding half China's 356,500 troops (TIME, Aug...
Charles Clark Younggreen of Milwaukee, at the culminating Berlin banquet of the International Advertising Association of which he is president (TIME, Aug. 26), beheld a spider crawling out from beneath his right cuff. Last week, his arm. spider-bitten, swollen, infected, required lancing, draining, dressings, rest...
...weeks ago United Cigar Co, and Tobacco Products Corp. changed hands (TIME, Aug. 26). The hands into which they passed were those of George Kenan Morrow and his brother Frederick. Since the Morrows were known to be interested in a number of food products, Wall Street began to talk of a new food products combination, perhaps rivaling the recent Morgan merger (Standard Brands). Last week, confirming that guess, four companies ? Toddy Corp. (chocolate malted milk), Edward H. Jacob (canned mushrooms), Kitchen Bouquet (liquid flavoring extracts), Fould Milling (macaroni) ? united in Grocery Store Products Inc., and the name...