Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Black-Connery Bill, giving the Federal Government power to regulate maximum hours and minimum wages throughout U. S. industry, was passed by the Senate just before it adjourned last August. In the House, the bill hit a snag in the potent Rules Committee, which can at least temporarily prevent passage of any bill by not giving a rule to bring it up for debate and which, since it includes a majority of four Republicans and five Democrats from the South whose industrialization depends on low wages, was last week as unwilling as ever to let the Black-Connery Bill reach...
...August of last year Anderson was more inclined to believe that a new particle really existed than that the Bethe-Heitler theory was at rault. Further help for the theory came from the researches of Caltech's H. Victor Neher at San Antonio, Tex., and Madras, India. Cosmic ray particles are pulled toward the earth's poles by its magnetic field. Particles of high energy resist this pull, and so predominate in the region of the Equator. The latitude difference between Madras (13° N.) and San Antonio (29° N.) furnished valuable data on electrons...
...eisteddfod (pronounced "eye-steth-fod") causes more stir in Wales than a heavyweight championship fight in the U. S. Wales' great annual eisteddfod is held in August, attracts every Welshman's attention, brings many Welsh-Americans across the Atlantic. Last August's eisteddfod took place at Machynlleth where Owain Glyn Dwr (Owen Glendower) became Prince of Wales in 1403. A specially built auditorium, accommodating about 12,000, houses each eisteddfod. Poets, orators, artists and singers compete. Audiences sit tensely, yell their applause. The winning team earns its town a place in history...
...continuance of the old ones. Steel production fell five points more to 31% of capacity. Freight cars. were 12% less full. Automobile production dropped to 83,000 units against 116,000 for the same week last year. The National Industrial Conference Board announced that employment had fallen 6.4% since August.* Lumber and power output slipped again, and national advertising lineage in newspapers was 16% lower than last year. About the only thing that could have halted a market slide in the face of such statistics was good news from Washington. This there had been for Little Business, in that part...
Everyone from the greenest Freshman to most august professor is required to show his books to these attendants as he leaves the library. This practice probably dates back to one of the librarians of the past century who, it is said, knew where every volume was at all times. In fact one fall evening this librarian was seen by one of his colleagues hurrying across the Yard in great agitation. On being asked the reason for his hurry, he said. "Every book is in the library but one. Dr. Jones has that book, and I'm going...