Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frenchmen were grimly convinced last week that Germany was in the very last stages of preparation for a war which Adolf Hitler would decide to fight now or later. On August 15, the 52 divisions of the German Army had begun a month of divisional training. Corps maneuvers in the 18 corps areas were under way this week. But it was agonizingly plain to those on the opposite side of the Rhine that Germany was not merely engaged in normal autumn military exercises...
Heavy trucks rumbled into Paris and dumped sand at points where it would be handy to shovel into bags for bomb shelters. Some 1,200,000 Frenchmen were with the colors, for in France also, recruits whose training period ended with August received no permission to return home. The whole of the vast steel and cement subterranean Maginot Line was more fully manned than ever before. General Edouard Réquin, in command of the Maginot Line, was abruptly promoted to the Superior War Council and several other high army commanders were given new key posts by Premier Daladier...
...Spiridonovich Stomoniakov, for years the top Soviet authority on the Far East, and adviser to Commissar Litvinoff on the Changkufeng dispute. In Moscow last week it was officially announced that Old Bolshevik Stomoniakov, who joined the Communist Party in 1902, was kicked out of his Foreign Office job on August 7-the day when 110 Soviet tanks, 40 warplanes, heavy Russian field artillery and some thousands of Red Army troops were beaten back after Soviet Far East Marshal Vasily Bluecher had hurled them in a major offensive to recapture Changkufeng Hill. Mr. Stomoniakov, as. Moscow's ace Far East...
...fallen (with occasional minor reversals) some $20,000,000 a week in New York City, another $20,000,000 in the rest of the U. S. Last week, however, Federal Reserve summaries for reporting banks in 101 cities showed the trend had been reversed for three consecutive weeks of August: loans rose $30,000,000 in New York City, $11,000,000 outside. Though there is always a seasonal expansion in August and though there was a slump in the week before Labor Day, Reserve officials asserted that the figures indicated the beginning of recovery had come to commercial credit...
Then F. W. Dodge Corp. added a still more hopeful postscript: residential building contracts in August were 17% above August 1937. Financial Reporter thereupon declared that F. W. Dodge Corp.'s 37-State tabulation of $1,297,513,000 worth of construction awards in the first half of 1938 meant that "as far as the investor ... is concerned, this industry deserves close and serious consideration...