Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wayne (''Big Dick") Richards of Lake Forest (Ill.) Academy had an idea. Throwing his leg over the arm of his chair and scratching the back of his head, he reasoned that secondary education should be more vital, more effective. Last year his idea became a plan (TIME, Aug. 18). Lake Forest's recitation periods were extended to 90 min., 45 min. being devoted to discussion and preparation of the next day's lesson. Staggered and rotating, the school schedule was revised to permit all subjects to share equally the advantageous hours...
...These items, like all others that went into the Akron, must be passed by Lieutenant Thomas G. W. ("Tex") Settle, Navy inspector on the job, before the ship is taken out for tests. Test flights warranting, the Akron may fly to the National Air Races at Cleveland sometime between Aug. 29 and Sept. 7, thence to Lakehurst for formal commissioning in the service of the Navy...
...York City had 195 cases of infantile paralysis July 25. By Aug. 4 there were more than 800 cases, mostly in Brooklyn. Anxious suburban parents, obliged to go to the city, avoided their children upon returning home until after they had changed clothes and gargled. Child campers in New England, New York State, New Jersey and Pennsylvania were forbidden visitors from the city. City health authorities opened stations to take blood from convalescents from the disease. Convalescent blood serum is a remedy if used early enough. Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, "an aspirant for the presidency" in 1932, who was stricken...
...long lines and jubilantly invited reporters in to see his potent directors "in the flesh." But at last week's meeting the directors, confronted with the poorest quarterly statement since the pre-War era, cut the common dividend from a yearly rate of $7 to $4 (TIME, Aug. 3). They left the meeting hastily, silently, Morgan-Partner Lamont forgetting his hat in his hurry. But President Farrell had something to tell reporters. Four words: "Wages were not touched." There was a bit of triumph in his voice. He has fought hard to keep up wages in the steel industry...
...alternatives confronting the conferees were: 1) to restrict travel by cutting down schedules or 2) to increase travel by cutting down rates. They took the latter course, announced a cut beginning Aug. 17 of from 10% to 30% in first-class rates, of 13% in third-class rates. In shipping circles it was rumored that the cut had been practically forced by the British, who had threatened a rate war against the French and German lines. Oldsters recalled that in 1904 British and German steamship companies competed so bitterly for immigrant trade that one could travel from Great Britain...