Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that, as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, he brought the second AAA to the Senate floor this year. In his recent campaign he sometimes blamed the bill on the New Deal, sometimes claimed credit for it. Last week, with cotton prices tumbling under a bumper August carryover of 13,400,000 bales and no increased AAA relief in sight, Cotton Ed set his weather-vane for good...
Document 1 is the final Runciman Report, summing up scores of hitherto secret cablegrams and verbal messages sent to His Majesty's Government by Viscount Runciman of Doxford in the period from August 3 to September 16, during which the veteran British shipping tycoon labored in Czechoslovakia as mediator...
...August, U. S. recovery seemed in full marching order. The stockmarket, after a healthy reaction from the whopping June and July rise, appeared on the verge of breaking into new high ground. Factory employment gained 4.9% (1.5% is the normal August increase). And commercial loans, having sagged all through Depression II, completed in New York City three weeks of solid rise. Since then, however, European militarism has gradually got into full marching order. By last week, instead of marching, U. S. business was generally marking time, with only a few industries pushing ahead like scouts reconnoitring in enemy territory...
...member banks outside of New York City reported the trend of commercial loans was still up. But in New York, where Big Business does most of its borrowing, they dropped for the fourth week in succession, a $33,000,000 decline erasing all but $4,000,000 of the August rise...
...last week, compared to 23,222 year ago. Power output stood at a new high since November, only 2.9% under a year ago. Lumber output rose contra-seasonally and commodity prices, whose break in March 1937 first heralded Depression II, continued a rise that has been steady since early August...