Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...payment for 47 acres of cotton destroyed. Spotting a cotton stalk in Farmer Morris' left hand, the President declared: "That cotton looks better than that which we raise down in Georgia." ¶President Roosevelt approved a special N R A 3? postage stamp to be issued Aug. 15. Design: a farmer, a business man, a factory worker and a woman "walking hand in hand in a common determination.'' ¶A start on the great Columbia River Basin project was assured when the President approved construction of the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington out of public works funds...
...their twin-motored biplane Seafarer they got away neatly from Pendine, Wales. Capt. Moliison, who steered a good course alone over the Atlantic last year (TIME, Aug. 29). steered a good course again. But it was a long, exhausting job. The Seafarer was built for distance, not for speed. When dusk fell a second time the Mollisons were sighted off Connecticut coast. They had made a splendid flight, against headwinds all the way. One hour more and they would land for a tremendous ovation...
...former residents of various towns and villages in the old country, mostly in Sicily. They celebrate the village's patron saint and include concerts, processions and evening illuminations. The society of San Giueppe di Riesi will celebrate July 28-30 and that of San Giuseppe di Pietra on Aug. 4-6. Others who have not yet set a date are those of Maria Santissima della Cava di Pletraperzia, San Calegro di Sciacca and the Madonna di Anzano...
...domain larger than Belgium, wilder than Abyssinia, more visited than Rome, colder than Moose Factory and hotter than Tophet, a fabulously scenic empire scattered over half a continent, quietly changed hands last week. In Washington, Secretary of the Interior Ickes announced that effective Aug. 9, Arno Berthold Cammerer would be the third director of the National Park Service. His job: to introduce the U. S. people to the grandeur of their own amazing outdoors...
...created out of big and little ones, voluntarily and deliberately decide to disband-saw, grimmest of all, the financial community giving tacit approval to the act. A. H. Diebold, president of Drug Inc.. last week sent a letter to his 30,000 stock-holders inviting them to vote Aug. 7 on splitting up Drug Inc. into five companies. What is more he told his stockholders that Drug Inc.'s directors had come to the unanimous conclusion that the company would be better off as five independent units than as one. A business world that in 1929 would have...