The board of suspension of the Interstate Commerce commission has ordered a group of railroads not to reduce their freight rates on grain, as they had planned to do this month.

Radiopasteurization has also been successful, and the shelf life of chicken can be extended to a month or more under refrigerated storage as compared with about 10 days for the untreated product.

The contract with Ray Field, who has been converting the agencies electronic data processing program to magnetic tape, would renew his present salary of $8 an hour up to a maximum of 200 hours a month.

Since some of the Roman months were named in honor of divinities, and as April was sacred to the goddess Venus, the Festum Veneris et Fortunae Virilis being held on the first day, it has been suggested that Aprilis was originally her month Aphrilis, from her equivalent Greek goddess name Aphrodite ( Aphros ), or from the Etruscan name Apru.

For more than two thousand years, since the time of Emperor Wu of Han, the month containing the winter solstice has almost always been the 11th month.

Nevertheless, the global Internet traffic has continued its exponential growth, undisturbed, and it is estimated at 21 exabytes per month.

Wedding a style and story both with many noir characteristics, released the month before Lang's M, City Streets has a claim to being the first major film noir.

The month has 28 days in common years and 29 days in leap years.

In 1848, a proposal was put forward in Kmetijske in rokodelske novice by the Slovene Society of Ljubljana to call this month talnik ( related to ice melting ), but it has not stuck.

The first game organized by gpsgames. org ran for two months ( June and July 2001 ); each subsequent game has run for one month.

Tegucigalpa, in a sheltered valley and at an elevation of, has a pleasant climate, with an average high temperature ranging from in April, the warmest month, to in January, the coolest.

Nearer San Pedro Sula, amounts are slightly less from November to April, but each month still has considerable precipitation.

Since 1995, Hungary has pegged the forint against a basket of currencies ( in which the U. S. dollar is 30 %), and the central rate against the basket is devalued at a preannounced rate, originally set at 0. 8 % per month, the Forint is now an entirely free-floating currency.

Adar I is actually considered to be the extra month, and has 30 days.

Since about the 3rd century CE, the Jewish calendar has used the Anno Mundi epoch ( Latin for “ in the year of the world ,” abbreviated AM or A. M .; Hebrew ), sometimes referred to as the “ Hebrew era .” According to Rabbinic reckoning, the beginning of " year 1 " is not Creation, but about one year before Creation, with the new moon of its first month ( Tishrei ) to be called molad tohu ( the mean new moon of chaos or nothing ).

) The Persian word is ماه عسل mah e asal which has both the translations " honey moon " and " honey month " ( mah in Persian meaning both moon and month ).

The tabular Islamic calendar usually has 12 lunar months that alternate between 30 and 29 days every year, but an intercalary day is added to the last month of the year 11 times within a 30-year cycle.

For example, if an insider expects to retire after a specific period of time and, as part of his or her retirement planning, the insider has adopted a written binding plan to sell a specific amount of the company's stock every month for two years and later comes into possession of material nonpublic information about the company, trades based on the original plan might not constitute prohibited insider trading.

The first day of each month, as well as the thirtieth day of the preceding month, if it has thirty days, is a minor holiday or observance known as Rosh Chodesh ( lit., " head of the month ").

In each leap year, the month of February has 29 days instead of 28.

The warmest month is July, which has an average temperature of and the coldest is January, with a temperature of.

And how very often a water plane is featured in his landscapes, and how appropriate that he should appear in American Artist again, in his natal month of March!!

But instead of delivering the ration -- either in actual commodities or in cash -- at intervals of perhaps two weeks or a month, the Belgians felt obliged to dole it out more often.

The true motion of the sun was now used to calculate the jiéqì, which caused the intercalary month to often occur after the second through the ninth months, but rarely after the tenth through first months.

Many Internet sites use YYYY-MM-DD, and those using other conventions often use-MMM-for the month to further clarify and avoid ambiguity ( 2001-MAY-09, 9-MAY-2001, MAY 09 2001, etc.

The current format of the tournament involves 32 teams competing for the title at venues within the host nation ( s ) over a period of about a month ; this phase is often called the World Cup Finals.

Celebrations often take place not on May 1 but during the Victoria Day long weekend, later in the month and when the weather is likely to be better.

William Still, often called " The Father of the Underground Railroad ", helped hundreds of slaves to escape ( as many as 60 a month ), sometimes hiding them in his Philadelphia home.

Strikingly similar folkloric aspects of the number 13 have been noted in various cultures around the world: one theory is that this is due to the cultures employing lunar-solar calendars ( there are approximately 12. 41 lunations per solar year, and hence 12 " true months " plus a smaller, and often portentous, thirteenth month ).

A month before this he noted that anyone could send petitions to the throne ; commoners often did, although the only times their petitions were read aloud to the emperor was when they called for the impeachment of local officials that were not up to par with their official duties.

Hokusai's date of birth is not known for certain, but is often said to be the 23rd day of the 9th month of the 10th year of the Hōreki era ( in the old calendar, or October 31, 1760 ) to an artisan family, in the Katsushika district of Edo, Japan.

Pullers often pay around 100 rupees ( around $ 2. 50 United States dollars ) per month to live in a dera.

* A " growl test " signal is described conceptually by CPG 1-17 for use when a siren must be tested more often than once a month.

In addition to the time, modern watches often display the day, date, month and year, and electronic watches may have many other functions.

Smithers ' official job at the power plant appears to be that of executive assistant, which he says is " actually about 2, 800 smaller jobs " responsible for monitoring employee attendance, and is often a disciplinarian and has won dozens of employee of the month awards.

During acute toxoplasmosis, symptoms are often influenza-like: swollen lymph nodes, or muscle aches and pains that last for a month or more.

On the back of the mater there is often engraved a number of scales that are useful in the astrolabe's various applications ; these vary from designer to designer, but might include curves for time conversions, a calendar for converting the day of the month to the sun's position on the ecliptic, trigonometric scales, and a graduation of 360 degrees around the back edge.

At first the entire figure was painted in greyish-brown tones, with very little flesh colour, the whole blending perfectly with the greyish-brown of the prepared canvas ; then the entire background would be intensified a little ; then the figure made a little stronger ; then the background, and so on from day to day and week to week, and often from month to month .... And so the portrait would really grow, really develop as an entirety, very much as a negative under the action of the chemicals comes out gradually — light, shadows, and all from the very first faint indications to their full values.

Oral retinoids also often cause an initial flare-up of acne within a month or so, which can be severe.

Nelsonville is organized around a public square, where, every month, a " Final Friday " celebration is held, with vendors, art show openings, and often shows at the recently-renovated Stuart's Opera House, an old theater from the 19th century.

Spring temperatures often vary more from one week to the next than they do from one month to the next.

Eid-ul-Fitr, Eid al-Fitr, Id-ul-Fitr, or Id al-Fitr ( عيد الفطر ‘ Īdu l-Fiṭr ), often abbreviated to Eid, is a Muslim holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting ( sawm ).

The Hopduvel ( Hopdevil ) represents the storm that often hit Asse-Ternat at the end of the month of August.

Anderson, who often developed unrequited feelings for unobtainable heterosexual men, wrote in his diary on 23 April 1962, after the first month or so of production: " the most striking feature of it all, I suppose, has been the splendour and misery of my work and relationship with Richard.

The council holds regular sessions each month, but has often held extraordinary plenary sessions to discuss issues and problems affecting the city.