Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chincoteague is far from being the only place in the East where there are wild horse roundups (TIME, Aug...
Appearing in your Aug. 7 edition of TIME, in the Aeronautics division, is an article stating that it takes 10 hr. of hard driving to drive from San Francisco to Lake Tahoe. I wish to correct that statement...
Statement in your Aug. 7 issue commenting on "Tahoe Takeoff" that "it takes 10 hr. of arduous driving to make the trip by motor" from San Francisco to Lake Tahoe is entirely erroneous. A very comfortable trip, including time on ferry from San Francisco to Berkeley, and a stop for luncheon or dinner on the way, is eight hours. Five or six hours if in a hurry and no stop for meal. Distance only 220 mi., splendid highway, but ferry kills valuable time...
...Main Street to Fraternal Hall between noisy ranks of striking coal miners. He had just flown in from Washington as President Roosevelt's personal emissary in an attempt to persuade balky United Mine Workers to live up to the strike truce their national leaders had signed (TIME, Aug. 14). At Fraternal Hall Mr. McGrady, his mouth set in a straight hard line, shouldered his way inside to face 128 local union leaders. Doors slammed. Locks clicked. Outside thousands of strikers waited and listened...
Immediate reason for default was that the operating deficits of two and a half years have cut the company's working capital from $12,600,000 to $6,000,000. Directors feared to impair it further by paying $800,000 in interest due Aug. 1. The able president (now receiver) Arthur Roeder (procured in 1929 from American Linseed Co.) will have a tough job to bring the company around the corner in time to refund $27,000,000 of bonds falling due a year hence. Saints have their crosses, the Rockefellers have Colorado Fuel & Iron...