Word: class
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reduce the number of 1940 members appointed by the new board from five to four, the present chairman, Richard H. Sullivan '39, said last night. Although the Constitution does not provide for the emergency, the Council last night used "executive discretion which we hope will be acceptable to the Class...
...recent issues of your lively magazine [TIME, April 24, et seq.] have protested against sending men under 40 or over 40 to fight in the next war, that there may be no dearth of fathers. Excellent! Let the next war be won by women past 45, that absolutely useless class! Having been for the last decade a widow in this group, fighting at the front would be a welcome diversion...
...only 600,000, climbed slowly from 49,750 in 1933, to 199,315 in 1937. Production of shoes, in a country which produces one pair a year per person, declined by 38,000,000 pairs in 1938. After the famine year of 1932 consumption of foodstuffs jumped: average working-class family in Moscow got twice as much meat, twice as much butter and sugar. But in 1932 only 35,000 tons of butter were sold in the Soviet Union, only 49,000 tons of milk. (U. S. consumption: 51,128,000 tons in 1932.) But by 1935, 207,000 tons...
...homesteads until the drive to collectivize the farms began in 1929. The first Five-Year Plan called for a 20% collectivization in 1930. But when lower taxes, credit, use of farm machinery, did not move the kulaks, the more prosperous peasants, the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class" was decreed on Jan. 5, 1930. Thereafter...
...average age of the class was found to be 20.6 years...