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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many archer-readers of TIME must have been disappointed by TIME'S failing to report on the fiftieth jubilee tournament of the National Archery Association held in Chicago Aug. 12 to 15. Archery though not so popular as golf or its kitchen sink (a la Will Rogers) variant, peewee golf, is older than golf, makes the same demands for coolheadedness and skill, yields the same exercise, is just as captivating of interest and enthusiasm. At the tournament several records were broken, notably the world's long-distance flight record with a yew bow. The Rev. L. L. Dailey...
Within its year of actual operation (Aug. 19, 1929-Aug. 20, 1930) the route grew from 125 miles of airways to a system which with its operating affiliations in South America aggregated well over 10,000 miles of airways in 18 countries; that more than 8,000 passengers were carried in NYRBA planes without a single injury to anyone and four days prior to the consolidation agreement NYRBA completed its first million miles of scheduled flying with one of the highest rated efficiencies of any air line in the world...
...drought in the valleys of the Ohio, Potomac and lower Mississippi ceased to be front page news as soon as President Hoover had held his White House conferences and told the States affected how to set up relief machinery without U. S. Treasury aid (TIME, Aug. 18). The mild public hysteria that had marked official action and pronouncements subsided. But still little or no rain fell over the blighted areas of Arkansas, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. Last week as the drought passed into its fifth month Government officials took fresh stock...
...drought had reduced this estimate to 2,200,000,000 bu. This week the Department prepared to issue its Sept. 1 estimates. Private estimators figured that the crop will then show about 1,950,000,000 bu. Declared Secretary Hyde last week: "As prospects have declined markedly since Aug. 1, the total deficit at this time (Sept. 1) is no doubt considerably larger." Secretary Hyde continued to urge farmers to feed the wheat surplus to their stock to make up for the corn shortage, declared that the U. S. was now on "domestic basis" for all grains...
...Revoke his "restrictive ordinances" which have gagged the Gandhi press and sent thousands to jail for such crimes as picketing (TIME, Aug...