Word: june
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (TIME, June 17) so similar is Author Renn's War that comparisons of the two will be inevitable...
Aeronautics, William B. Ziff's aviation monthly published in Chicago, recently printed the idea as a corollary of Col. William Mitchell's revived demand for a Department of Aeronautics (TIME. June 10). The National Aviation Academy might be located at some midcontinent point remote from possible boundary invasions. To it Congressmen might nominate cadets who would get a four-year training in mechanics, piloting, tactics, strategy. Graduates would be able to move in war as an independent force, instead of as auxiliaries to Army or Navy groups...
Last week, the directors of Middle West Utilities Co., great Insull holding company, voted a 10-to-1 splitup of its stock which, selling at $158 late in June, touched $370 per share last week. Stockholders were given 67 million dollars worth of "rights...
...power and glory of the British Empire. It is the percentage of world shipbuilding that is being carried on in British and Irish shipyards, thus establishes Great Britain as builder of slightly more than one-half the world's total ship tonnage. At the close of June there were 2,838,225 tons of ships being built throughout the world. Of this tonnage, British and Irish yards were contributing 1,454,906; all other countries...
...recorded the number of fatal industrial accidents in New York State in June. It was a large statistic of its kind. Many a fatality had occurred in construction work. Among causes of deaths were: Motor vehicles, 24; trains, 13; elevators and hoists, 5; cranes and conveyors, 5: falling objects, 2; steam shovels, 2; falls. 25; handling of objects, 18; explosions, hot substances and electricity...