Word: june
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Toronto officials tried to get all this relief money back from the four mothers, fecund winners of Toronto's famed "Stork Derby" which paid out $425,000 (TIME, June 13). The day they got their prize money the mothers spontaneously chorused: "We will repay every cent of the relief we received...
...physical reason why a rainbow should not be seen when the moon shines, but such rainbows have been rarely described. Last week, Professor Armin Kohl Lobeck of Columbia University, urged by his scientific friends, modestly but firmly described a rainbow which he saw on the night of June 16, while crossing from Nassau to Miami. Said he: "Tumultuous trade wind clouds towered to gigantic heights and there were occasional squalls of rain. About 11 o'clock, when the moon was well up in the southeast sky, the rainbow appeared in the northwest, where a thunderstorm was in progress...
...debentures, which sold at a premium of 1⅞ (formal price was 102). Week's only industrial issue was $10,000,000 in Crucible Steel 3½% debentures. Like the year's two biggest industrial loans (U. S. Steel's $100,000,000 issue in June, Standard Oil's $85,000,000 issues in July), part of Crucible Steel's new money will be spent on plant improvements. All told, the week's Wall Street financing reached $72,762,000, compared to $7,940,685 the week before...
Jacob Schick died in June 1937; Archie Andrews in June 1938. But the Schick v. Packard battle went on. Last week Schick shaved its selling price from $15 to $12.50. Packard immediately went its competitor one better by cutting its Packard Shaver from $15 to $7.50, its newer Roto-Shaver from...
...house for its passengers. For small-budget vacationists this was just the ticket, and Eastern's idea clicked profitably. Island innkeepers, as well as Furness Bermuda, which controls three hotels, were alarmed. They could easily imagine Bermuda harbors dotted with ship-hotels, the inns covered with cobwebs. Last June they had a bill introduced in Bermuda's Legislature barring ship-hotels from St. George and Hamilton harbors. But when the Governor-General, Lieut.-General Sir Reginald J. T. Hildyard, opening Parliament to consider the legislation, mentioned Eastern as the chief offender, the U. S. State Department protested such...