Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farmer is selling his wheat here for about 60? now. A year ago he received $1.20. Flour is the same price. Every bushel of wheat milled since Aug. 1, 1929 made the miller or someone 60? more than he made before. The Farm Board has 20,000,000 bushels of old wheat. Why not buy a few mills instead of elevators and give the people the flour based on present price of wheat? Flour retails here about $2 for a sack of 48 lb. When wheat was 60? some 15 years ago we bought flour at 85? per sack...
...above wheat instead of the usual 20¢ or 30¢ below. The husbandman's cry of "Crisis!" rose more shrilly throughout the land. Chairman Alexander Legge of the Federal Farm Board abruptly departed from Washington on a second crusade through the West for wheat acreage reduction (TIME, Aug. 4). En route he paused at Chicago to confer with cotton growers...
...battle. Paradoxically, the parading crowds carried banners not praising war but decrying it; the Red planes dove, not to loose steel and nitroglycerine eggs, but to dump fluttering leaves of peace propaganda. The occasion: International Anti-War Day, held on the 16th anniversary of mobilization for the World War (Aug. 1). At Moscow the climax of the day came when the Volunteer Society for Aerial & Chemical Defense presented the army with 51 Soviet-made fighting planes, purchased through public subscription...
...morning of the celebration, to the huge amusement of Socialist deputies and editors, Prime Minister Tardieu had had a long interview with the military commander of Paris discussing precautions that must be taken to prevent any Communist demonstration on Aug. 1. A trifle tartly M. Tardieu explained the subtle difference between the revolutionists of 1830, whom he delighted to honor, and the revolutionists of 1930 whom he was eager to suppress...
...Rome, and Prime Minister Benito Mussolini's 47th birthday, enthusiastically observed at Milan, was chosen by the Italian Cabinet as the day on which to announce its appropriation toward rebuilding the houses demolished fortnight ago when temblors cracked Italy's ankle from Naples to Bari (TIME, Aug. 4). One hundred million lire ($5,260,000) was set aside for the erection of several hundred "anti-seismic"* houses in the devastated region, for destroying uninhabitable dwellings, for shoring up those which are salvageable...