Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...balloon flight came as a complete national surprise. For the past six months Osoaviakhim (civilian aviation society) had been planning a stratosphere flight, but its thunder was stolen last autumn when the Red Army balloon U. S. S. R. got away first to an altitude record of 11.8 mi. (TIME, Oct. 9). Quietly Osoaviakhim plugged its preparations. Pavel Fedeseemko, a famed civilian pilot, was in charge. lya Oususkin, youthful physicist, was his first aide, Andrey Vasenko his engineer. With only a few officials privy to their secret, the crew had its balloon Osoaviak-him I inflated at Osoaviakhim...
Agriculturist-Diplomat Jardine's lame-duck return from Egypt last autumn was timely for Kansas Republicans. He was just the well-known, respected stop-gap they needed for the State Treasury, headless and reeking after the Finney bond scandal (TIME...
Only member of the cast at ease amid this furore is Carol Stone, 17, third daughter of Fred Stone. Theatregoers took instant notice of her ability, childish prettiness and pleasantly mature figure last season when she appeared as a minor rôle replacement in Spring in Autumn. Unlike Sisters Dorothy and Paula, who emulate the capering and caroling of Father Fred, she means to stick to straight drama...
...year. Hudson had 24,000 orders on hand and a working staff double its January average. Nash estimated that it would deliver more cars in the first quarter of this year than in all of last. Blamed in part for delayed deliveries was the tool and die strike last autumn, but the fact remained that the Industry's orders had piled up to $250,000,000. In Akron, all major tire companies raised wages 10%. Firestone dusted off molds it had not used since 1929. Goodyear's chief statistician predicted tire sales for 1934 would reach...
...last six months two memorable meetings have been held in a gymnasium. The meeters have been the stockholders of Armour & Co. Last week in the big brick building which the late J. Ogden Armour built to make strong Armour meatmen stronger, the stockholders completed the revolution they began last autumn...