Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wages of Steel. The 200,000 employes of United States Steel Corp., from president down to puddler, last week heard what they had expected for some time. Another reduction of wages and salaries was ordered. In October wages were cut 10% after a 10-15% salary reduction in August, when Big Steel finally decided overhead must come down. The new cut was 15%, making a total reduction of 23.5% in the pay of 44? an hour which was considered basic in 1929. In addition most men are now working on short shifts...
...rooms must be vacated by August 16 and may not be reoccupied until the middle of September, but residents will be allowed to retain their rooms during the period between the close of the college term and the opening of Summer School...
...house in a hangar, the giant flying boat DO-X has been high & dry on the beach at Glenn H. Curtiss Airport, N. Y., since August. Riggers have been busy scraping and painting the hull, re-doping the great wing. Mechanics have reconditioned the twelve 600-h. p. Curtiss Conqueror motors, stepped them up 50 h. p. apiece. Last week Captain Friedrich Christiansen announced that DO-X would take off for the return flight to Europe via Newfoundland and the Azores about...
Among the Fascist Deputies elected was Prince August Wilhelm, fourth son of Wilhelm II and "First Hohenzollern in a Republican Parliament." The People's Party, famed when it was led by the late, great Dr. Gustav Stresemann, collapsed like a pricked balloon. The Communists barely held their own. Triumphant Adolf Hitler, who has stumped the Fatherland by air at a man-killing pace, rolled up for his Fascist Party in Prussia the imposing plurality...
...patented trade name of the product of Dryice Corp. It has become the popular name for the products of its competitors as well. Dry-Ice is solid carbon dioxide, an efficient refrigerant. Last week Dryice Corp., pioneer in the field and largely owned by Capitalist August Heckscher, merged with its old rival Solid Carbonic Co., a concern closely affiliated with the du Pont interests. Although the merged companies will control more than half of the industry's capacity, they will not lack formidable competition Much of it will come from powerful-privately-held Michigan Alkali Co., a rich concern...