Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Following the lead of Commonwealth & Southern which this month sold TVA its Tennessee utilities for $80,000,000, National Power & Light last week sold to TVA and the City of Memphis for $17,360,000 the distributing system of Memphis Power & Light Co., leaving TVA with no major private competitors in Tennessee. TVA is dickering for parts of Commonwealth & Southern's Alabama and Mississippi properties that would give the Authority a clearly defined power empire in three States...
...Utilitarian Howard Colwell Hopson, the roly-poly New Deal hobgoblin, Chip resigned. Presently, through Jim Farley's good offices, Chip bobbed up again as secretary of the Democratic National Committee. Today he and his beauteous second wife, "Evie" Walker, who has become a Washington chitchat writer (and last month, a mother), are the New Deal's sportiest couple...
Italy. No doubt remained last week that there were abnormal military movements in Italy. Last month 60,000 reservists were called up. Last week, with the anti-French campaign in the Italian press gaining momentum, the number was put at 150,000, with 300,000 as the immediate goal. That would give Italy 600,000 men under arms, not counting territorials...
...arrival in France "neglected" either to declare the jewels or to turn them in at the Consulate. French customs officers caught wind of the "smuggling," began a search. Seventy-six Loyalist officers and men were arrested, fined 18,000,000 francs and sentenced to jail terms ranging from one month to two years for evading customs laws. By last weekend the French Government was richer by some $397,000 worth of stones. It intended to apply the money thus raised to feeding the 380,000 Loyalist refugees it harbored. Last week 70,000 of the latter elected to return...
Swift developments in this key country of southeast Europe, where conditions have been turbulent for a month, were expected to have an important, though as yet uncertain, bearing on the struggle for dominance of Europe between the totalitarian and democratic blocs...