Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they had reached no agreement of importance and at Tokyo last week Japanese Big Business was in panic. The tycoons of the Empire do not want, just now, the crushing additional tax burden of another Japanese war. Their export business, stimulated when Japan took her yen off gold (TIME, Dec. 21, 1931) begun to find the effects of that shot in the arm wearing off. Several European countries have recently given themselves such shots in competition. Last week Czechoslovak firms, their currency freshly devalued, were reported to have got several big orders away from the Japanese...
...opinion there is great need for, and there does not exist, a well-written, factual, entertaining and impartial contemporary history -a history which takes up one year after another in volume after volume-each beginning with Jan. 1 and ending with Dec. 31, each written from the fresh viewpoint of the given year...
Meanwhile at Odessa, several thousand of Stalin's most industriously toiling "Stakhanovite" workers (TIME, Dec. 16) were accorded the privilege of a holiday at the waterfront while the Soviet steamer Kuban was loaded with clothes and food for Spanish Reds. Several Soviet steamers are now plying back & forth with this exceedingly tame assistance to Spaniards engaged in a death struggle for Communism in their country. At Barcelona last week the Soviet steamer Zirayanin landed 3,000 tons of foodstuffs amid a local celebration by the city's dominant Anarchists, Communists and Syndicalists...
During the year the National Museum acquired 296,468 new items. Among these were the trophy awarded in the first Vanderbilt Cup Race 30 years ago, presented by William K. Vanderbilt; the sailplane Falcon, presented by the widow of Sportsman Warren Edwin Eaton (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934); a Maybach dirigible engine; a Mergenthaler linotype; a model of the locomotive De Witt Clinton and train; 108 new textiles; 136 coins; 1,314 stamps. Dancer Sally Rand did not send in her fans, as she has promised to do eventually. Nor was the Wright Brothers' plane forthcoming from London, whither Orville...
Cheng Tien-hsi, the eclat being due to the fact that he assembled and supervised in London the Chinese Art Exhibition which recently had all Europe agog (TIME, Dec...