Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great pools. Oil prices, under this threat, climbed to 50? within a week. There they remained as Aug. 1 came and went. When no shut-in order was forthcoming, oilmen opened pipe-line valves at their gushers, started their pumps to get as much of their August quota as possible above ground and catch any price rise. To their charge of bluffing Governor Murray retorted: "I won't be rushed into this. When I'm ready to shoot, I want to give a lot of these people a lesson in constitutional...
...epidemic, however, was local. Of major U. S. cities, New Orleans, Buffalo, Los Angeles (which had an epidemic last July and August) and St. Paul each had but one case of infantile paralysis. Last week Chicago had 6, Washington 4, Detroit 5, Boston 7, New Haven...
...almost every Negro spiritual; it is the import of a morality play called Heaven Bound which has made its appearance in Atlanta, performed by the choir of Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. First wide public to hear about Heaven Bound was the theatrical world. Theatre Guild Magazine for August called it "the first great American folk drama" and said: "It should and probably will make Georgia an American Oberammergau." Recalling the power of The Green Pastures, a Negro religion play written by a white man (TIME, March 10, 1930), observers hastened to inspect a genuine all-Negro product...
...Cleveland. Last week the first special trainload of Erie employes and families chuffed out of New York bound for the road's new headquarters in Cleveland (which will not, for the present at least, be located in the Van Sweringen's skyscraping Terminal Tower). All through August more special trains will chuff away with more Erie families, until by the end of the month the 1,000-odd inhabitants of the Erie's New York office will all be installed in Cleveland. Wall Street oldsters recalled that the last time the Erie moved...
...with The Tragedy of Waste. He is the only U. S. author to make three book clubs: Your Money's Worth (with F. J. Schlink) was a Book-of-the Month; Prosperity, Fact or Myth? was a Paper Book; the Literary Guild has chosen Mexico for August. He has been twice married (divorced from Margaret Hatfield in 1929), lives in Redding, Conn. and goes to Manhattan once a week to work at the Labor Bureau (without pay), and at the one accounting job he has kept (which pays well...