Word: june
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...June, on Blue Mountain and Morant Estates in the Parish of St. Thomas, the coconut pickers were on strike for a week, then went back to work at their old rate. The week before the strike they did twice their usual work so that they would lose nothing by a week of rest...
Every summer many people are killed by lightning on U. S. golf courses (see p. 20). The U. S. Golf Association was acutely reminded of this fact last June when two spectators were killed and Golfer Horton Smith was grazed by lightning in the Kansas City Open.* Last week the U. S. G. A. advised its member clubs to post on their bulletin boards the following thunderstorm...
...June 1935, Franklin Roosevelt announced: "I have determined that we shall do something for the Nation's unemployed youth." Their number, about 2,500,000 (aged 16-24) out of both school and work, did not include the army of 500,000 which the New Deal had put into CCC camps. A new agency, NYA, was put into the hands of social-working Deputy WPAdministrator Aubrey Willis Williams, who at the age of six went to work in a torpedo factory. In spite of setbacks and criticism, Aubrey Williams pushed ahead with NYA. With the help of Executive Director...
...Last June, FCC opened hearings on the superpower question, last month took up the specific case of WLW, last week was told of business plucked from a small station by WLW's giant strength. The hearing closed with another renewal of WLW's experimental 500 kw. till February 1939. But this time the renewal is subject to the final decisions which will come out of FCC's hearings of the last two months. These decisions are likely to be delayed until next year while the FCC digests volumes of argument and thinks about the Senate, where, before...
...Delayed imposing limits on speculative trading in grain. Commodity Exchange Commission let slip the news that the effective date for these rules (TIME, June 27) had been postponed indefinitely since both the Chicago Board of Trade and Cargill Inc. had protested that the rules exceeded CEC's constitutional prerogative...