Word: june
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...book* which contains, besides a sketchy but competent Hoover biography, a section of Hoover quotations and excerpts of the unfamiliar sort. They are not abundant. They include, of course, part of the famed Hoover essay, "In Praise of Izaak Walton," published last year in the Atlantic Monthly (TIME, June 6, 1927). There is also the familiar bit about "Main Street Under Water" (the Mississippi flood...
Early reports of U.S. business for the six months ending June 30 showed generally increasing profits. But subsequent reports show a large, though not alarming number of losses during the half year. The following list is by no means complete, only a good cross section of the later reports...
Decoded, it would have read: "Have received no letter from you since June 3rd. Are you all right? Please reply by telegraph. Pancake." The recipient of the cable would have recognized the mysterious Pancake as Carl O. Pancake, assistant secretary of the Guaranty Trust Co., technical delegate to the approaching International Telegraph Conference at Brussels...
Outstanding among exceptions to the rule of prosperous, optimistic midyear statements were the balance sheets of U. S. automobile tire companies. Sales figures, if not exuberant, were satisfactory. But income figures were disheartening. Net income of the "biggest" Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. dropped from $6,364,005 (Jan.-June, 1927) to $3,074,200 (Jan-June, 1928). For B.F. Goodrich Co., a profit of $5,813,501 turned into a deficit of $1,574,889. Fisk Rubber Co.'s huge deficit...
Died. John Hornby, 50, lost explorer; of starvation; in a solitary cabin on the Thelon River, west of Hudson Bay, Canada. Hornby departed northward with two nephews in June, 1926; a search was instituted in December, 1927; last week the Canadian Mounted Police reported discovering the three bodies...