Word: summered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Webb Miller, United Press's European manager, published a series of six "uncensored" articles whose material he gathered in Russia this summer. High point of the series was a story illustrating the vigilance Soviet writers must keep to stay in line...
...Congressmen are glad to get out of broiling Washington, go home in the summer. In Mexico, Congressmen are glad to escape from the broiling lowlands to cool Mexico City and go to work in the summer. Last week diplomats in gold braid, commercial attaches in morning clothes packed the balcony of Mexico City's Chamber of Deputies to hear President Lazaro Cardenas open the regular session of Mexico's 37th Congress. Senators, Deputies, who disdain formal dress as not in keeping with the nation's "social revolution," attended in street clothes...
...Across the Pole is the Northeast Passage to China along the top of Norway & Russia. Sebastian Cabot initiated its search in 1553. Henry Hudson twice attempted a passage but it was not until 1879 that the route was navigated. Now Russia currently operates 160 freighters on summer schedules in the Northeast Passage's more open but colder waters...
Chicago's impecunious Board of Education this summer found $900,000 to enable public schools to open a week ahead of time (see p. 22). But the continued prevalence of infantile paralysis in the city last week gave a good excuse to postpone the opening...
...commodity boom and the unhappy state of the nation's labor relations, reached bottom in June. For two months thereafter all was well enough, save for the extreme thinness of stock and bond trading. On Aug. 14 Dow-Jones industrial averages reached a high of 190 for the summer. Then, to the confusion of prophets, the whole market began slipping. By last week the market was back almost to the year's lows-Dow-Jones industrials to 170, utilities to 26.40 and rails actually penetrating their previous level...