Word: auguste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Knights of Columbus denounced your magazine for its anti-Catholic "bias" last August at the Seattle Supreme Convention, which I attended...
...French freight train chuffed calmly out of Mulhouse, across No Man's Land under the muzzles of Germany's guns, and up to Basel, Switzerland-first French train to arrive there since the end of August. Explained the engineer: "We had a lot of stuff consigned to Switzerland sitting in the freight station ... so I thought I might as well bring it along...
...after all seven pumping stations are in. The oil yields 49% gasoline on straight run, double that under cracking processes (ordinary black oil yields no better than 24% gasoline on straight run). How much of it lies hidden in the upper Catatumbo basin nobody knows. The companies have until August 1941 to stake out their final claims. Then half of the Barco reverts to the Colombian Government...
Total construction contracts let in September (F. W. Dodge Corp.'s 37-State report) amounted to $323,227,000, compared to $312,328,000 in August, to $300,900,000 in September 1938. One curious brake on this big advance is contractors' fear that war, if it lasts more than a year, may more than double costs, as it did last time. So they are afraid to bid for jobs taking two years or so to finish. Thus, in New York City last fortnight, only one bid was offered for a whopping new Criminal Courts Building...
...long, however, did Breeze remain obscure. In March 1938 Breeze elected two other directors, representatives of a Wall Street group, headed by Securities Salesman John J. Bergen, which had sold Breeze common stock to the public. In August 1938, SEC slapped down a stop order, charged that Breeze had overstated the value of its patents and its future sales prospects, implied that such rapid expansion should inspire conservatism in the corporation's statement of its worth. After subsequent amendments, the order was lifted...