Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chattilon itself) is each day more firmly dependent. Many chemical engineers would have risked even money on the line that, even if labor had been willing to operate the plant at a collective wage of $0.00 a week, manufacture of nitrocellulose yarn at the plant would have ceased by August 1936. They would tell you, too, that it is probably as cheap to build a new acetate plant as to attempt a conversion...
...said in slow and sombre syllables: "I cannot honestly say that my heart is happy today, because I have seen with my own eyes some of the things that I have been hearing and reading about. . . ." When he reached Washington he was to hear and read still more. The August crop report predicted a corn harvest only two-thirds of normal, 500,000,000 bu. smaller than estimated a month earlier...
Speakers lined up by Dr. Goebbels to campaign for "My Leader" this week: Col. Oscar von Hindenburg; the Graf Zeppelin's Dr. Hugo Eckener; Wilhelm II's Nazi son Prince August ("Auwi") Wilhelm; German Olympic Games Heroes Hans Sievert (world's decathlon record holder) and Otto Peltzer (sprinter) ; Munitioneer Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach. For the first time newsorgans announced that Adolf Hitler will speak not to the German people but to "his people...
...yawning below, they are likely to look twice as big as they really are. Consequently mariners and seasoned ocean travelers were last week discussing excitedly the carefully documented measurements of prodigious waves in the Pacific reported by Lieut.-Commander Ross Palmer Whitemarsh in U. S. Naval Institute Proceedings for August...
...Parisians the excitement from the Etoile to the Rue de la Paix was an old story. As every fashion follower knows, there are two months in the year ? February and August ? when the couturiers throw open their shops to a select few to reveal in their "collections" what the best dressed women will wear during the next six months. Smaller midseason displays are held in April and November...