Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gush immoderately but poured out in a legally limited stream. After 19 days Governor Sterling lifted martial law in four counties to allow the State Railroad Commission to apply a new proration order to an area that almost ruined mid-continent fields with low prices (TIME, Aug 31 et ante). Each East Texas well was allowed to run off not more than 225 bbl. per day.* The Commission's order was expected to cut in half the field's maximum "wild" production of 738,000 bbl. per day. Guardsmen stayed in East Texas to see that proration...
...luck. To bolster British finances Great Britain had already been forced to draw some $20,000,000 of the $200,000,000 credit raised last fortnight in the U. S. Superstitious Britons watched for the return of a great black cormorant which had appeared from nowhere the afternoon of Aug. 11, just as Britain's troubles were becoming acute, and roosted ominously every night for five nights on the cross atop the dome of St. Paul...
...planes took off, while Coquimbo's citizenry with their wives and baby carriages lined the shore. U. S. observers, remembering the difficulties of U. S. Army pilots in hitting the unarmed Mt. Shasta (TIME, Aug. 24), wondered what success they would have. The Chilean aviators did not actually sink anything but they had an unanswerable alibi: It was their duty not to damage valuable government property more than was absolutely necessary. In the line of duty they hit the General O'Higgins right on the nose. Her prow burst into flames which were quickly put out. There was no score...
President Machado was happy to announce that the extra expense incurred by the Government during the revolution had been only $150,000. The rebels had lost $500,000. he estimated, most of it in stores and munitions captured at Gibara (TIME. Aug. 31). To show that his heart was in the right place, last week President Machado split a $60,000 bonus between the troops who were in action during the 15-day campaign...
Swedish matches lit the fires of revolt which ran Isidro Ayora out of the Presidential Palace at Quito fortnight ago (TIME, Aug. 31). First as Provisional President, since 1929 as Constitutional President, he had been Ecuador's chief executive for the past five years. Ironically, the same matches which burned him last week helped secure his position two years ago. At that time he got a loan from Swedish Match Co. (Kreuger & Toll) in return for granting the firm a national monopoly. Not only did President Ayora grant a monopoly, but he agreed to pay out of the Ecuadorean...