Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Well aware that cotton goods have been piling up in warehouses, employers took the strike philosophically, announced the mills would stay shut indefinitely, declared the union was "striking against NRA." Union leaders announced that if the strike was not settled by the time of their national convention (Aug. 10), it would be made nationwide...
...Italy, that occupied by Her Excellency* Rachele Mussolini, portly and placid wife of Il Duce. Later this month, if all goes well, the two Dictators will join their wives for a week-end conference at Riccione, the third personal conference in a year of Mussolini and Dollfuss (TIME, Aug. 28; March 26). In Vienna the little Chancellor announced: "Austria's foreign policy will not be changed from our main principle of independence. So far as internal policy is concerned we must now take the most severe measures against enemies of the State...
Commander Hunsaker, a trained technical observer, is already in Europe. Nevertheless he was to arrive home this week and with Members Warner, Berres & Lane, board a Department of Commerce plane Aug. 3 for a month's tour of the U. S. to visit Army & Navy bases, inspect commercial airports and aircraft factories and look over airmail, passenger & express route...
...Aug. 31, 1919 the U. S. public debt was $26,596,701,648.01. Last week the Treasury issued for cash $300,000,000 of 14-year, 3% bonds (oversubscribed eight times) and $500,000,000 of 2⅛% five year notes (oversubscribed nine times). When those Federal securities passed into the hands of the public, the national debt topped the all-time high of 1919, stood...
...precise method of Leon Charles Albert Calmette and Charles Guerin, B. C. G. vaccine apparently does prevent tuberculosis. But many a slip is possible and disaster may ensue, as Lubeck, Germany discovered four years ago when 57 infants died after vaccination with defective B. C. G. cultures (TIME, Aug...