Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oddest fact about 70-year-old retired Major General Sir Reginald Ford, appointed Chief Divisional Food Officer for London and the Home Counties last August, is that he makes his home in Brussels, Belgium, 250 air miles away. His is mainly a wartime job and he is needed in London only for occasional consultation. Explained Sir Reginald recently: "Heavens, man, I can get to London quicker than I could if I lived in Scotland. ... I catch the 10 a.m. plane from Brussels and am in my office...
...River valley. In besieged Madrid the number of persons reported dying from starvation every week has recently risen to 2,000. Faced by these grim facts, a subcommittee of the League of Nations' Technical Commission on Nutrition, headed by Britain's famed Sir Edward Mellanby, met in August to find out exactly how much a man must eat in order to stay alive. Last week the Lancet printed the nutritionists' report. The report suggested a basic minimum diet for war-torn countries which would tickle no palates and fill no stomachs but would maintain life...
Last week India's prohibition movement made its biggest advance. India's second largest city, Bombay, will be bone dry next August-as far as Indians are concerned. Purred Mahatma Gandhi over his latest success: "If India carries out prohibition, it may well hasten the return of prohibition in the United States...
...General Shoe s success story contains no compromise with Founder Jarman's original high principles. Nevertheless, James Franklin Jarman left an estate of $3,500,000 when he died last August. Two-thirds of his money went to the Jarman Foundation, whose objectives are aiding Bible institutes, Fundamentalist orphanages and missionaries. Management of the company went to his son, Walton Maxey Jarman, president for the past five years...
...came a birthday picture of one-year-old, two-toothed Princess Beatrix of The Netherlands, whose mother, Crown Princess Juliana, announced fortnight ago that she expects a companion piece "about the middle of August...