Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herbermann procured for his line a ten-year ocean mail contract at $1,044,000 per year. When his new ships began to operate Walter Brown, then Postmaster General, increased this subsidy to $2,185,000 per year. But Export Steamship was not overburdened with postal cargo. From August 1928 to June 1929 its ships carried precisely three pounds of mail, a cost to the Government of $234,980 per Ib. In 1929 it carried one pound of mail for $115,335. For fiscal 1931 it carried eight pounds of mail for $125,820 per Ib. Its defense was that...
...Jack Westrope could ride as soon as he could walk. He went to Florida last winter as contract rider for a Texan named Oscar Foster. By the time Foster, who lives wherever he happens to be racing his string of horses, moved to Chicago for the Hawthorne meeting in August, Westrope had ridden more than 150 winners, established himself as No. 1 jockey of the season. Jockey Westrope rides with high stirrups, leaning far in at the turns, wheedling his mount in a squeaky, nervous treble. He uses whip and spurs less than most young jockeys who are less canny...
...Bradstreet reported a sharp gain in retail buying. Housewives, who had lofted department store sales in August 16% above the 1932 level, were flocking back to the counters; the downward sweep of the long-delayed normal summer slump seemed to be flattening out. Best buying was in the Midwest and on the Pacific Coast. Said D. & B.: ''No small part of the maintenance during the last few weeks of the headway made during the spring and summer months is attributable directly to the relentless enterprise of the NRA. . . . There has been no abatement in the rise of employment...
Fact-finding National Industrial Conference Board last week announced that the cost of living in August increased 2.3%, was 7.6% above April but 23.6% below August...
...theory Dick du Pont invited the pilots, as his guests, to an informal meet centering at the Swannanoa Country Club near Waynesboro, atop the Blue Ridge in western Virginia. Last week this meet got under way. Besides Pilot du Pont in his new Bowlus sailplane Albatross there were August C. ("Gus") Haller of Pittsburgh, builder of Hatter-Hawks; Haller's pupil, Emerson Mehlhose of Wyandotte, Mich., Warren Eaton, Norwich, N. Y. After feeling their way up & down the Ridge for a couple of days, the pilots went out for records. Mehlhose, in a Hawk, took off from Rockfish...