Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Germany's large -scale mobilization which began August 15-dubbed "maneuvers" by the Third Reich's General Staff -was officially called off last week. In garrisons at Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Mainz, Fürth and Königsberg at least 450,000 youthful reservists, happy that their Führer Adolf Hitler had got all he wanted of Czechoslovakia without losing a man, were in high spirits as they made ready to return to civilian life November...
...various State examinations in the past year were divided equally between men and women; 2) many cases of gonorrhea were detected during the course of required physical examinations; 3) the number of marriages in New York and New Jersey declined sharply after the laws became effective last July. Since August, however, New York marriages have been increasing and marriages in Connecticut, first State to pass a test law, are as frequent as ever...
...past few months.... To assist in carrying on its stabilization of employment program, the corporation will again build substantial inventories in excess of retail demand during the winter months. . . ." Not to be outdone, President K. T. Keller of Chrysler Corp. announced the rehiring of 34,000 men since August 1, the restoration of March salary cuts. Said he: "Current business is brisk. . . . Stocks of cars in dealers' hands are 31,500 today, as against 98,000 at this time a year...
...Last August Cities Service began negotiating to sell its Michigan subsidiary to equally sprawling Commonwealth & Southern Corp., which serves 60% of Michigan (and some ten other States). Last week, providing SEC and the Michigan Public Utilities Commission approve, the deal was closed for $3,200,000 in cash...
...Last August, onetime Fisticuffer James Joseph Tunney, now chairman of $14,000,000 American Distilling Co., announced that his company was quitting the Distilled Spirits Institute because it was "without social consciousness or soul"; later he amplified his charges, said he found "something comic about a group which spends great sums to advertise the virtue of moderation and then breaks the backs of its representatives to make them meet impossible sales quotas...