Word: june
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...Southern California it is bad enough that the northern part of the State has two great bridges, one across the Bay, the other across the Golden Gate, lately opened with two gigantic fiestas (TIME, Nov. 23 & June 7). For Southern California it is worse that it contains a bridge which has made a lot of horrid news- Pasadena's notorious "suicide bridge," the long, aqueduct-like structure spanning 158½-ft.-deep Arroyo Seco in which squats the Rose Bowl. According to local legend, when this bridge was built in 1912, several workmen were buried alive in the concrete...
Fortnight ago Fumitaka Konoye, 22, son of Japan's new Premier, made the world press by being elected captain of Princeton's golf team (TIME, June 14). Last week Princess Yori, 6, third daughter of Japan's Emperor, had a picture of herself relay racing at the Peeress' School printed in the New York Times. Captioned the Times: A JAPANESE PRINCESS MAKES THE TEAM...
...Demanding indictment of the Chicago police for the "murder" of seven strikers outside the Republic Steel plant on Memorial Day (TIME, June...
...press conference that he hoped for quick action in Congress on Secretary Wallace's cherished "Joseph" plan for insuring farmers against lean years by storing away part of each bumper crop (TIME, March 1). The President spoke day after the Federal Crop Reporting Board, having added up June 1 data from 40,000 farmers and field agents, released its estimates of the principal U. S. crops for 1937.* Most accurate to be had, the figures seemed to suggest that a cycle two years shorter than the Biblical one had entered its second phase and the time had come...
Already alarmed by the way their shares had condensed on the New York Stock Exchange last fortnight when dividends were passed (TIME, June 14), the unhappy preferred stockholders in New York Steam Corp. must have felt last week as if their corporate fires were about to go out. After the break which carried Steam's two preferred issues down 20 points in one session, the stocks rallied briskly, the 6% series having climbed by last week to $96 per share, the 7% series...