Word: aug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvey S. Firestone, Akron, Ohio, rubber fabricator and exploiter of rubber plantations in Liberia (TIME, Aug. 16, 1926), did not scoff. Said he: "It is no new discovery. It is going to help in increasing production, but not so much as is claimed...
...still pended before Seymour W. Lowman, onetime Lieutenant Governor of New York, was to replace Brigadier General Lincoln C. Andrews, as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in Charge of Prohibition Enforcement. But Assistant Secretary Andrews was away from his office on a vacation and would not be back before Aug. 1, the transition date, except "to clean up his affairs." Assistant Secretary Lowman was already and practically in charge. The new Commissioner of Prohibition, Dr. James M. Doran, was also ready to function. So last week seemed propitious for calling the district prohibition administrators to Washington for conference and instruction...
...Between Aug 1?15: Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Wheeling, Dayton, Cincinnati, Louisville, Indianapolis, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Chicago, St. Louis...
...Between Aug. 16?31: The Tri Cities-Moline, Davenport and Rock Island; Milwaukee, Madison; Twin Cities-St. Paul and Minneapolis; Little Falls, Fargo, Sioux City, Des Moines, Omaha, Denver...
...highest altitude ever reached by an airplane was 40,820 feet (almost 7½ miles) by Jean Callizo in a Bleriot-Spad biplane with Lorraine motor, on Aug...