Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the national three-cushion championship ended in Manhattan last week, Layton had taken a beating from August Kieckhefer. If anyone, talking to Kieckhefer face to face, looks at his left eye, he has a feeling that Kieckhefer is interested in something else. To overcome the behavior of his eye, he shoots left-handed so that he can sight with his right eye. He beat Layton 50 to 38 in 58 innings, but three-cushion championships are decided by total number of games won and lost, and it was Layton and not Kieckhefer who played off in the finals against...
...this last interest which will particularly absorb Dr. Poling in the immediate future. On the Berengaria he and Mrs. Poling sailed last week for Europe, where he will superintend preparations for the Eighth World's Christian Endeavor Convention to be held in Berlin next August. Similar conventions have heretofore been irregular (the last was in London in 1926) ; hereafter they are intended to be biennial. To Berlin will go representatives of 34 national Christian Endeavor organizations, including from 700 to 1,000 delegates from the U. S. Theme of the convention, at which Dr. Poling will preside: "The Challenge...
...Rosie Rosenberg is a John Smith sort of name. Last week the thousands of Rosie Rosenbergs had cause to rejoice. His Majesty George V, Defender of the Faith, King and Emperor, had just conferred the august title "Commander of the Civil Division Order of the British Empire" upon Miss Rose ("Rosie") Rosenberg...
Less ancient than Scovill, but still old by U. S. standards, is the Schrader concern. In 1844 August Schrader started making diving suits and air pumps, a business that brought him into contact with many of the early rubber experimenters. After making moulds for Dr. Charles Goodyear, Founder Schrader began to manufacture a variety of metal parts for rubber products. When pneumatic tires were made for bicycles he introduced a new valve, now used on 85% of automobile tires. Other Schrader products include metal parts for hot water bottles and footballs, tire pressure gauges, air-hose fittings, valve tools...
...action of the Colombian legislature in increasing the tax on petroleum production was interpreted (by Wall St.) as the result of British maneuvering in the world-wide competition for petroleum properties. Specifically, the Gulf departure from the Colombian field was considered a development favorable to Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding and his Royal Dutch-Shell group...