Word: august
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...AUGUST...
...school, munching a 5? pickle and reading plays as she walked. But in her senior year Anne inexplicably decided to become a lab technician and work nobly at the side of some great researcher. Mamma again called the shots, scraped up the $500 tuition to send Anne to the august American Academy of Dramatic Arts. It was just two weeks before graduation from the Academy that she was discovered practicing alone on the school's darkened stage while everyone else was out to lunch. That chance encounter eventually got her a part in a TV production of Turgenev...
...August 1953, Transitron got its first big order: $40,000 worth of diodes from Remington Rand's Univac division. Sales and profits have soared steadily ever since. Last year Transitron had sales of $30,913,376 and earnings of $6,456,138 after taxes, a 21% return on sales and the highest among leaders in the industry...
...monsters from Paolozzi's studio bring close to $10,000, and the august British Council has picked 30 of his works as Britain's only sculpture entry in next year's Venice Biennale. They represent man scrambled, irrevocably...
...holes and back rooms, more and more are coming from new, modern factories such as Lee's. He employs 5,000 workers, v. 150 when he started, has one factory running three full shifts a day, spinning, weaving, dyeing, cutting and sewing cot ton garments for export. Last August he added a new factory to weave 1,000,000 yds. of cloth per month, cut 60,000 gar ments a day. His own garment exports to the U.S., 15% of the crown colony's, have risen from $1,000,000 in 1956 to $12 million this year...