Word: auguste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cheerful financial news there was, last week, in September's railroad earnings report. Net income for Class 1 roads was estimated to be a swaggering $36,000,000, twice September 1937's $16,110,527, three times August's $10,053,000, six times September...
...counterattacked the wartime forces that tend to inflate prices and costs. In full page national ads, full-jowled No. 1 U. S. Rubberman Litchfield announced tire price cuts of as much as 12½%, in spite of a wartime increase of nearly 25% in the price of crude rubber (August 29, 16¼? a lb.: Oct. 27, 20½?). After "streamlining" plants and methods, costs were slashed to absorb September's rubber inflation as well as the rubber business' big complaints: higher wages & taxes...
...August 1939, when total U. S. power production was up about 10% over August 1938, hydro production was down 8%, and steam plants had to plug into hydro's distribution outlets to stave off a power famine. August steam plant output jumped 21%. September told a similar story. Most acute water shortage was in TVA country, in New England (where August hydro output fell 34%), in the Middle West (where rainfall had been ⅓ to½ of normal). Part of last month's coal crisis (TIME, Oct. 2) was due to utilities' emergency demands. Another reason...
...women cannot do without silk stockings, and silk stockings wear out continually so that even a temporary buyers' strike is next to impossible. So by last week raw silk cost U. S. hosiers as much as $3.55½ a nine-year peak price, up nearly $1 since August, up $1.75 since December. U. S. silkmen were full of confusion, distress, suspicion. Many a silkman was caught in short positions by a sudden, savage shortage. Some types of silk were not to be had at any price...
...popularity in The Netherlands of the House of Orange has progressively improved since Prince Bernhard began taking pictures of his daughter Beatrix (born January 1938). Last week he boosted the popularity of the dynasty another notch by releasing a picture of Beatrix with her new sister Irene (born last August...