Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Whalen. Present was a tall, shy, greying civil engineer named Joseph F. Shadgen. By proxy Mr. McAneny had to admit that Engineer Shadgen was really the man who "originated" the Fair on its site in the Flushing, L. I. salt marshes. He it was who, after nine months of study, first went to Mr. McAneny through Edward F. ("Eddy") Roosevelt (a distant, cosmopolite cousin) with plans for reclaiming the land, pumping up new land, dredging channels, etc. etc. When more prominent persons became interested, complained Engineer Shadgen, he had been shunted aside. A lawyer friend of Maestro Whalen...
...negotiations for TVA's purchase of Tennessee Electric Power Co., one of four C. & S. operating subsidiaries in the Tennessee Valley. But, well aware that the committee was winding up its labors on a report that will have the attentive ear of Congress when it convenes next month, Utilitarian Willkie took full advantage of his first good opportunity to shift the Power fight from the courts to the people's forum...
...month after the Munich agreement Prime Minister Chamberlain got a 345-to-138 vote of confidence from the Commons after outlining his revised foreign policy as follows. Britain must be prepared to accept almost unlimited extension of Germany's influence in East Europe, Japan's in East Asia. But, just as "there is room both for Germany and ourselves in the trade" with East Europe, there was room for Britain and Japan in China. "China," said the Businessman Prime Minister, "cannot be developed into a real market without the influx of a great deal of capital...
...last day of Ramadan, the month in which the Koran was revealed, and in the hill station of Kanwali. A battalion of the King-Emperor's Indian soldiers were observing Mohammed's strict law. During Ramadan, it is written, a Moslem must not enjoy the pleasures of food, drink, tobacco and women from that time in the morning when a white thread can be distinguished from a black one, until the hour of the evening when neither can be seen...
Last week on San Francisco's famed Embarcadero were unloaded the biggest and best magazine rotary presses ever to appear on the West Coast. When assembled in the prospective Palo Alto plant of Sunset, the Pacific Monthly, the battery will consist of two 64-page, two-color Cottrell presses and two Cottrell-McKee multicolor presses for four-color work, along with electrotyping, drying and binding equipment. Total cost: $250,000.* All of this will start rolling next month to print a magazine which has had to peg its circulation at around 200,000 since 1930 because there were...