Word: summer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tundra wilderness of Siberia to seek him. No marvel of jasper or onyx, this; it is a large rock with a fused crust, composed of iron and silicates. It is the largest meteorite ever found on the earth, and Prof. Kulik has been looking at it ever since last summer...
Travelers going south from Indianapolis along the Dixie highway noticed last week, as others did all summer and autumn, uncouth men clamber out of the wooded gullies and ravines of Morgan County. The men had in common an intent, secretive, yet futile look on their faces. They were diamond hunters. Every day they waded Indiana's creeks and panned the gravel left there long ago by glaciers. Frequently they found grains of gold; rarely, yet often enough to stir hope, they found a small diamond. Because similar diamonds have been found in Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin, in the terminal...
Able theorizer Col. Leonard Porter Ayres of Cleveland, stubbornest bear, again prophesied a market break. Last summer (TIME, July 23) Economist Ayres saw the stockmarket as "a great national bet against the continuation of high interest rates, and since the Federal Reserve authorities can hardly reverse their policies . . . the decision will probably be against the stockmarket with ... a serious decline in stock prices before the end of the year." With only six weeks of the year left, Economist Ayres last week failed to mention the Federal Reserve, was far less emphatic, based his bearish innuendoes on precedent. He noted...
Chevrolet passed Ford when Model A was being prepared. Ford repassed Chevrolet late last summer. Now, Ford is making 6,000 cars a day. 1929 will be a telling year. Henry Ford will stand by his four and use his low price ($385 to $625) as his most potent weapon. Chevrolet will use arithmetic-six is more than four-"Bigger and Better...
...York World reported last summer that liquor had been sold over the bar of Dr. Straton's hotel; this caused Dr. Straton to start a $200,000 libel action against the World. The case has not yet been settled...