Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...August 15, 1914-the end of eight years' struggle during which Dr. William Crawford Gorgas licked yellow fever and General George Washington Goethals' 50,000 ditch diggers licked 200,000,000 cubic yards of dirt and rock-the day the Panama Railroad's steamship Ancon made the first transit from Atlantic to Pacific...
...long ago the Lascelles boys, with a group of fellow Etonians, inspected some antiaircraft guns at Leeds. They used their observations for a 900-word lead story in the August issue of Harewood News, illustrating it with cute pictures of a gun and a bomber. A copy of the News found its way to the Manchester Daily Express, which sent the story to its London office, which sent a reporter to the War Office...
...college trustees, looking for "a young man" to succeed Dr. William Allan Neilson, who retires August 31, asked Mrs. Morrow to run the college ad interim. First woman to head Smith (although it was started in 1875 with money contributed by rich Spinster Sophia Smith), Mrs. Morrow was no illogical choice for the job. She is a Smith alumna ('96), mother of three Smith alumnae (Elisabeth '25; Anne '27; Constance '35), has been a Smith trustee since 1926, helped raise the college's endowment from $2,000,000 to $6,000,000 (to which...
...when falling commodity prices reflect business unwillingness to bid for materials for future use. This unwillingness was already apparent by July 22 when the Department of Labor's wholesale price index fell sharply on its way to a new post-Depression low (74.8% of 1926), again in early August when both the Dow-Jones Index of future commodity prices and Moody's index of spot commodity prices slumped sharply...
This year's cotton crop is estimated (as of August i) at 11,412,000 bales. Average U. S. consumption (1928-38) is 5,919,000 bales. So a bad situation seemed certain to grow worse. If Europe fights it may grow still worse, for war normally reduces cotton exports. The only means now available for reducing the huge cotton surplus is the use of $50,000,000 appropriated by Congress for export subsidies (with its aid Henry Wallace wishfully hopes to get exports back to 6,000,000 bales). Last week Columnist Hugh Johnson roared...