Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Extended its easy credit policy to railroad equipment trust certificates. Heretofore, with the exception of the World War period, the Interstate Commerce Commission has always required a 25% down payment by railroads on equipment purchases financed by equipment trust certificates. Last August ICC allowed Seaboard Air Line Ry., which is in reorganization, to finance 90% of a $1,671,000 equipment trust issue. Last week in a supplementary decision ICC let the Seaboard finance the other 10%. ICCommissioner Claude R. Porter dissented on the grounds that such a policy would impair the market for equipment trusts...
...give Chamberlain an argument for capitulation at Munich in connection with Czechoslovakia. The bribed liar, Lindbergh, fulfilled the order of his masters. That explains everything!" Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh, according to Pravda, were "cordially and sincerely received by the Soviet people" when they visited Russia in 1933, but last August "nobody invited him [to Russia] and if he was permitted to come it was because Americans had requested...
...Montezuma in Chile. Last week the Smithsonian announced that it would start a new solar observatory atop Burro Mountain, an 8,000-ft. peak in southwestern New Mexico, with Observer Alfred F. Moore in charge. The annual rainfall of ten inches is almost all concentrated in July, August and September, leaving nine months of superb observation weather...
Most people are familiar with the camera as a recorder of contemporary history, but are unfamiliar with photographic records of the past. This past is not quite 100 years old. for it was in August 1839 that the Frenchman, Louis Daguerre, first publicly described his discovery. In the U. S. the first daguerreotypes were sometimes called "sun pictures," and in a few years the clarity of U. S. sunlight was being declared the reason for the superiority of Yankee photographers. Published this week is the first attempt at a full history of these men, their methods, their successors...
...last week, earnings reports for August (first full month since the 25% boost took effect) made it plain that thus far the rate increase has helped the railroads as much as a rainy climate helps rheumatism. The Pennsylvania Railroad's passenger revenues fell 14% below August 1937, the New York Central's 17%, Baltimore & Ohio's 19.5%, the New York, New Haven & Hartford's 3%. All told, August was the Eastern railroads' worst month for passenger revenues this year...