Word: autumn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...shall during the summer and autumn, as best I may, present these matters to the people of this country and urge them to ask the leaders at Washington to loosen the grip of bureaucracy upon the daily lives and habits of the people...
...wings of the wind he had soared 155 mi., broken the world's distance record (136.8 mi.) made by the late Guenther Groenhoff in Germany's Wasserkuppe three years ago. Previous U. S. distance record (121.6 mi.) was made by du Pont last autumn in Virginia's Shenandoah valley, Elmira's rival as a U. S. soaring centre. Belittling his achievement, du Pont told newshawks: "All there was to the flight was finding clouds and going for them. ... I used a mountain only once." Same day in Elmira Richard's wife Helena Allaire Crozer...
...observation ap paratus and as soon as he saw that it worked, disassembled it. Last week he regretted his act. when Surgeon William Rose of Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center asked permission to use the Simjian device first. Mr. Simjian, about to sail for England, promised to build another in autumn...
...huge Merchandise Mart housed 53 exhibitors and Manhattan's show which closed a fortnight ago was a huge success with 406. The Furniture Mart opened with 600. There the big retail stores select suites (pronounced "suits" by most of the trade) for display in the autumn, when the public does most of its furniture shopping. The professional buyers who last week smiled, frowned, scratched their heads, slapped feather mattresses and dusted armchairs with the seat of their pants may not actually close a deal for weeks or even months. But the Mart claims that 70% of all furniture purchased...
...price keel since last summer when business booked by wholesalers increased 100% over 1932, and prices on some lines went up as much as 60%. The Furniture Code, which went into effect last December, helped stabilize prices by forbidding sales below cost. But the boom of last summer and autumn has died away, and the seasonal upswing stimulated by June weddings has been weaker this year than last. A tremor ran through the industry fortnight ago on reports from Chicago, hastily denied, that some manufacturers were about to cut prices...