Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thumb, and the Balkans feared that Russia and Germany would try a "pressure pincers" on Rumania. King Carol, alarmed, conferred with Rumanian political leaders of all parties in an effort to get "national union" support for the Cabinet of Premier Dr. Constantin Argetoianu, formed after the assassination last month of Premier Armand ("Little Hercules") Calinescu by Rumanian Nazis...
Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Antarctic explorer, seems to thrive on trouble, and if he got off on an expedition without something going wrong he might regard it as an ill omen. This month the Admiral starts his third trip to the Antarctic, partly backed by U. S. Treasury funds, to clinch the claims of the U. S. to some 450,000 ice-covered square miles. Last week enough mishaps befell his huge new "snow cruiser" to convince him that everything was going to be all right...
Then the picture changed. This fall Conductor Klemperer was rushed off to Boston to be operated on for a brain tumor. By this month his health had become so precarious that he had to give up his conducting plans for the season. With the health of their orchestra also precarious, the board of directors decided on a desperate blood transfusion: an injection of high-spending cultural barbarians among their own withering shirt fronts. Last week, while the starchier board members still creaked and grumbled, the Los Angeles Philharmonic announced: 1) a move from Los Angeles' solemn, downtown Philharmonic Auditorium...
Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the noteworthy...
...stave off a power famine. August steam plant output jumped 21%. September told a similar story. Most acute water shortage was in TVA country, in New England (where August hydro output fell 34%), in the Middle West (where rainfall had been ⅓ to½ of normal). Part of last month's coal crisis (TIME, Oct. 2) was due to utilities' emergency demands. Another reason for the need for new generating capacity is the relatively small recent investment in utilities plants. In 1929 the utilities invested over $900,000,000 in new plant, topping a six-year average...