Word: june
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year ending June 30, students were served over two million meals in House and Graduate School dining halls and at the Union. The five House operating from the Kirkland network served 735,000 meals while Dunster and Adams which have separate kitchen systems served 120,000 and 141,000 respectively...
...Kelly Tribune, permitted to scoop its competitors on the Committee's findings, identified it as consisting of "100 representative Chicagoans." The anti-Kelly News, remembering that the mayor invited local bigwigs to join such a committee last June, produced a better scoop. Only 30 had joined and of these 23 had never seen the report. "I didn't attend any meetings," said puzzled President Frank Cunningham of Butler Bros...
Britain is a sea power. The Kaiser would not sign a treaty giving Britain undisputed naval supremacy over Germany, but the Führer signed (and probably is not stupid enough to break) the treaty under which his navy is restricted to 35% of Mother England's (TIME, June 24, 1935). That was a trade. The gain to Britain, which the late Joseph Chamberlain would have considered stupendous, even with aircraft altering the picture, was something Neville Chamberlain bore well in mind at Munich. The vital lifelines of the British Empire, spanning the globe (see map), are still defended...
...many "eras" ago, that Waterloo was an inconsequential little place near Brussels where a great British man called Wellington, whose family name was Wellesley, and a German man named Blucher, first recipient of the Iron Cross, were fortunate enough to crush a great French man named Napoleon on June 18, 1815. Napoleon, who once held a commission as second lieutenant of artillery, had put on a great show, but St. Helena was ahead...
...June 1936 Eastern railroads began selling passenger tickets at 2? a mile (after 16 years at 3.6?). Within a few months officials complained that the low fare was a losing proposition. Increase in traffic, they said, was not enough to compensate for the cut rate. After hearing them grumble for months, the Interstate Commerce Commission last July permitted them to hike their fares to 2½? mile. This was expected to raise income about $32,000.000 (TIME, July...