Word: previously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feature of the Prime Minister's latest declaration was that he was careful to utter it while both the London and New York rubber exchanges were in session. Thus he avoided a repetition of the scandal caused when he made his previous rubber announcement, last month, at an hour when the London exchange was closed but the Manhattan exchange was open. The result of the blunder was, of course, to enable U. S. brokers to make a heavy killing before the London exchange re-opened next...
...France now postulates that: "In a general way the obligations of the new pact should not be substituted for, or prejudice in any way, previous obligations contained in international instruments, such as the Covenant of the League of Nations, the Locarno agreements or treaties guaranteeing neutrality whose character and scope cannot be modified thereby...
...previous record was 52 hr. 22 min., 31 sec., held by the German aviators Johann Risticz and Cornelius Edzard at Dessau, Germany, in July 1927-in the Europa, sistership of the Bremen...
Voluntary prisoners in the air, Eddie Stinson and George Haldeman spent more than two days and two nights in the air above Jacksonville beach, Fla., beating the previous record by more than an hour. They jockeyed their single-motored Stinson-Detroiter monoplane to take every advantage of breeze and altitude, until they had but five gallons of gasoline left of the 550 with which they took...
...streak through the air, with gallant Major Mario de Bernardi as pilot, gave Italy a new record for speed flying last week. Piloting a special seaplane, the Italian ace averaged 318.57 miles an hour over a measured course, at times going 350 miles an hour. The previous record was his own, 296.94 miles an hour, established last November...