Word: june
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your article in TIME, June 12 under the heading Power-"Poet, Project, Pork, Progress"-has been called to my attention...
Referring to your statement [p. 15, TIME, June 19] that "incalculable tons of water has cascaded over Niagara Falls between 1776 and a summery night last week when the great-great-great-grandson of England's George in was trundled across Niagara River to set foot in the U. S. A.," may I take the liberty of suggesting that the amount of said water is calculable...
...superlatives used by Reader Lawrence Griswold [TIME, June 26] in describing a bonefish (i.e., "world's greatest gamefish," "most elusive speedster") called to mind a tropical piscatory phenomenon known as the ''banana fish...
Very definitely would I like to second Norman VV. Geare's plea for Monday holidays [TIME, June 26]. I will accept Mr. Geare's arguments to the industrialist, for in them I am only secondarily interested. I speak for the average man, many of whom, I know will agree with me when I say that more often than not midweek holidays are a nuisance rather than a help. There is little one can do with one day to get a rest other than to go to bed for the day. With a three-day weekend all sorts...
...Washington, the President took personal charge of the fight, and presently the silverites were bought off in conference by a promise of 70.95? silver. Effect of this deal was to infuriate the hard-money men to the point of filibuster, and the bill failed to pass before the June 30 midnight deadline...