Word: summer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blinds were reeled down, lights were snapped out in the crowded courtroom of a Philadelphia Quarter Sessions Court one day last week. On an improvised cinema screen flashed the images of a detective, a stenographer, a glum young man. The young man's lips moved. A loudspeaker blatted: "This summer I robbed 25 homes on my milk route. The loot I got was worth $10,000. . . I have not been beaten nor forced to make this confession...
Though unquestionably guilty, the nice old gentleman has so many potent friends in Spain that all through the spring, summer and fall he lived luxuriously in the officers' quarters of a Spanish battleship anchored off Valencia. He has just been acquitted by the supreme war tribunal before which he resolutely professed his guilt...
...Kahn, able to instruct his many workmen to such good effect that diamonds cleave well, cut well, in trade parlance "run" well for him. Mr. Kahn blamed the unsettled state of the diamond tariff (TIME, Aug. 26). Ably he pointed to the gradual slump in buying since last summer, due to the retail hope for lower schedules. Happily he pointed to the accidental under-stocking that has allowed Manhattan jewelers to weather the storm. Confidently he predicted renewed buying by stock-shy investors of safe, eternally valuable precious stones...
...Pennsylvania fields; Texas oilmen have on the whole cooperated enthusiastically with the restriction plan; encouraging progress has been made in the Mid-Continent (Oklahoma) fields. California, however, is the crucial point. California increased its production 40% in 1929 and now produces 30% of the U. S. output. Last summer the California legislature passed the Lyon Act, a measure ostensibly designed to prevent wastage of natural gas but really meant to limit oil production.* Small producers have questioned the legality of the Lyon Act, but big oilmen maintain that the courts will uphold the validity of the measure and that...
...since 1889. when a tidal wave swashed shipping against the wooded mountains, has Apia Harbor. Samoan Islands, been so aghast as last week. Although it was a damp, warm day of Capricorn summer, a breeze rumpled the thick greenery around Apia. At anchor rode the brigantine-rigged wooden yacht Carnegie. Built in 1909 to study all the things that the Carnegie Institute thinks man should know about the sea, the Carnegie was made a unique ship: not an ounce of magnetic material in her hull or aboard her. Even her 150-h. p. auxiliary motor was built of nonmagnetic stuff...