Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only that another B. E. F. would be on its way to France within the first week of a war in which the French and British were partners-but said that it would consist of 19 mechanized divisions, or somewhere between 190,000 and 300,000 men. In August 1914, a bare 60,000 British soldiers crossed the Channel...
...celebration provided for and by this august gathering consisted of songs (Mezzo-Soprano Gladys Swarthout, Baritone John Charles Thomas) and speeches. Three of the speeches were thumping successes...
Aware that he must retire next August at 64, resigned to the airward trend now that Franklin Roosevelt has taken off with the airmen, Malin Craig silently acceded to last week's changes...
Most production indexes showed a steady rise from June to November when the " 15-week sidewise move" began. A corresponding rise in TIME'S index of Business Conditions (see below) took place from March to August, when the TiMEline wavered, subsequently to reach a new peak on the first of the year, and then begin another descent (which has not yet indicated a reversal of the major uptrend). This in no way contradicts the sidewise movement of other indexes, for the TIME index reports not production but the relative soundness of business conditions. Since business activity has lagged several...
...franchise for a Manhattan subway was first offered at public auction in 1892. Although potentially it was probably the most lucrative franchise ever offered, it drew a lone bid of $1,000, which was promptly rejected. The city thereupon decided to build the subway itself and August Belmont, then a financial outsider, came forward to act as contractor. When the line was finished in 1904, his Interborough Rapid Transit Co. secured a lease to operate...