Word: auge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because of "excessive overwork which is propitious neither to my work nor to my health," Wilhelmina said she would give up the throne in favor of Princess Juliana. (At a ten-minute ceremony in the Knights' Hall at The Hague, Juliana was sworn in as regent.) On Aug. 30-the eve of her 68th birthday-Wilhelmina would resume the throne for a week of jubilee. Sept. 6 would be the 50th anniversary of her reign. On that day (or shortly thereafter) Juliana would become Queen of The Netherlands...
...closing time, stocks had jumped up one to ten points. The industrial average was up 3.78 points to 188.60. Rails closed at their best level (62.24) since Aug. 20, 1946. Total turnover for the day: 3,840,000 shares, the Big Board's biggest volume since May 1940,when prices crashed as the Germans broke through France...
...many writers who are famous that readers may reasonably wonder why they never heard of him before. De Forest was a Connecticut Yankee who married a Charleston girl and raised and captained a Connecticut company throughout the Civil War. His war novel, Miss Ravenel's Conversion (TIME, Aug. 21, 1939)> a failure when first published, went unread for nearly 72 years. His personal story of the Civil War, A Volunteer's Adventures (TIME, July 22, 1946), was published for the first time two years ago. Now it appears that there are still more first-rate De Forest works...
...months-as it often has-for CAB to make up its mind. Last week he got a chance to prove it. Up before CAB came one of the airlines' bitterest squabbles-the fight between Braniff Airways, Inc. and Pan American Airways Corp. for business in Latin America (TIME, Aug...
Lilienthal's term would expire Aug. 1. The President was determined to nominate him for a full five years.* Republicans were unwilling to see such an important appointment carry over through an administration which they expected to control. Lilienthal himself would accept a one-year term. But Harry Truman refused to listen to any compromise. The nominations went up to Capitol Hill...