Word: junes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sorrowful Jones. The boozy sentiment of Damon Runyon's Broadway, heavily spiked with Bob Hope gags (TIME, June...
...Bureau of Labor Statistics took a deep breath last week, squared its shoulders and owned up to a gigantic mistake: its employment index has been cockeyed for at least two years. In its last estimate, made in June, the bureau had put U.S. employment (nonagricultural) at 43,733,000, which, it now turns out, was nearly 1,000,000 too high. In 1948, BLS had been wrong...
...cheap food; the support program would keep most prices up, despite the huge surpluses. During fiscal 1949, CCC poured out $3.1 billion for loans and purchases to keep up prices on 31 commodities, just about five times the outlay in 1948. At the fiscal year's end in June, the agency had $2.3 billion tied up in loans and inventories, showing a paper loss of $356 million for the year at current market prices. Most of the support money went for only seven commodities: cotton, $822 million; corn, $470 million; wheat, $640 million; flaxseed, linseed oil, $231 million; potatoes...
When assayers announced an incredibly rich gold strike in the Orange Free State last June, the shares of Joseph Milne's Free State Gold Areas, Ltd., which had made the drilling, nearly tripled in price on Johannesburg's stock exchange. Milne's paper profits were estimated at from $8 million to $20 million (TIME, June 27) on what was called the richest gold strike in South African history. But the boom collapsed when a police-supervised test showed that the ore was only a fraction as rich as the three previous tests had showed...
Edgar J. Seherick, son of Mrs. J. J. Seherick and the late Mr. J. J. Seherick of 24 Monroe Boulevard will graduate next Thursday, June 23, from Harvard University...