Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presidency, Madras, Bihar and Orissa, the Central Provinces and the United Provinces (TIME, March 8). Together these make up three quarters of the population of British India. Taking returns from all provinces into account, the Party of Gandhi won a nation-wide majority as impressive as that won last autumn by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.* This popular mandate went to a party which had gone to the polls with a platform of opposing the new Constitution...
...singles players, including Professional Jack Purcell who two years ago beat Hollywood's Willard for the "world's championship," the game spread quickly to Detroit, Chicago, Seattle. Badminton literature began when Squash-Badminton appeared in 1934, grew when American Lawn Tennis added a badminton section last autumn, came of age last week when the national championships made badminton in daily papers jump from the society to the sports pages. Average badminton bat weighs 5 oz. to a tennis racquet's 13½ oz. Birds, still patterned after the Duke of Beaufort's champagne corks, weigh...
...Last autumn Transcontinental & Western Air infuriated its two major rivals, United and American Airlines, by cutting its fares about to railroad levels (TIME, Nov. 9). TWA took this risky step for two reasons: to counteract the usual traffic slump in winter and to counterbalance the fact that both United and American temporarily had more luxurious equipment. American got the first Douglas DC-3 sleepers last year, did not dare put an extra fare on them in the face of TWA's cuts. United, however, did add a $2 surcharge for the non-stop run from Newark to Chicago which...
Invited last autumn to speak to the students of brokerage at the New "York Stock Exchange "Institute," SECommis-sioner William Orville ("Bill") Douglas stirred up a teapot tempest in Wall Street by unburdening himself on the "unestablished value" of customers' men, a financial tribe marked for early SEC attention. Referring to the "practice of gentlemen teaching gentlemanly ways of redistributing the wealth of their clients," tart-tongued Bill Douglas went on to observe...
...gusty Gone With The Wind at $3. Reason: the book which has sold at the rate of 3¼, copies per minute since it was published last June has been a favorite object of price wars between Manhattan department stores.* Swept back to Macmillan next day like autumn leaves were 35,940 copies of Gone With The Wind, returned by R. H. Macy & Co. under terms also stated in the fair trade law. To mammoth, price-cutting Macy's, which has fought the law from the start and is out to publicize its opposition, there was little market left...