Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decreased the average work week 16.8%. Discouraging spot on the Institute's report came in tabulating production figures, calculated from June 17, at the beginning of the summer boomlet. Since that time the industry's operating schedules had declined from 47% of capacity to 44%. But since Aug. 15. said General Johnson, finished steel prices had increased from 1.979? per Ib. to 2.015?. Pig iron had risen from $15.94 per gross...
...which brought the nation huge new territories. He induced flamboyant Queen Marie's quiet husband (whose name, already forgotten, was Ferdinand) to exact the abdication of Crown Prince Carol. When King Ferdinand died and Carol's son Mihai became Rumania's "Boy King" (TIME, Aug. 1, 1927), Rumanians said "It is now Ion who reigns and rules," but later that same year grizzled, astute old Ion Bratianu died, leaving the Premiership to his brother Vintila...
...Premier Bennett balanced with two Canadian bankers, Sir William Thomas White and Beaudry Leman. To give Western Canada a voice he threw in Premier John Edward Brownlee of the Province of Alberta. For two months the Commissioners have inched over the wide Canadian landscape from bank to bank (TIME, Aug. 28). Last week, after the two Scotsmen had gotten back to London for congratulation dinners, the Commission's findings were issued at Ottawa...
Died. Jesse Hickman Mellett, 52, three times Mayor of Anderson, Ind., brother of Canton, Ohio's assassinated Publisher Don R. Mellett (TIME, July 26; Aug. 2, 1926); after long illness; in Anderson...
...three-and-a-half mile long fair grounds were a disappointment although they improved as the summer wore on. Down there, "Mexico" and "Wings of a Century" became good attractions. The latter lost $20,000 a week at first, made money by midsummer, played to capacity crowds by Aug...