Word: previously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Late last month a 21-year-old West Virginia mother, who had had two previous children, unknowingly bore her third while easing herself over a slop jar. Her husband unwittingly emptied the jar into the backhouse. There, 40 minutes later, Dr. Bittinger found an 8-lb. boy, cold and quiet but still alive. Commented Dr. Bittinger: "If this baby survives, it will have a fine history, especially if it runs for President...
...procedures of making up the two catalogs are much alike. At Montgomery Ward the business is carried through 132 steps on a huge chart. First the buyers try to wangle as much space as they can, each arguing the merits of his own department. Buyers' criticisms of the previous issue are closely heeded. Head of Ward's catalog enterprise is Vice President Frank Folsom, who disclaims the title of editor. Under his eye work 52 copywriters, some 600 artists and layout men. When, after 11 revisions, the page proofs are completely corrected and back to the printer...
...clock one morning last week the world's most amazing mother, Mrs. Oliva Dionne, was safely and uneventfully delivered of her twelfth child, her fourth son. On the previous afternoon she received a journalist with reluctance saying: "Having a child is such a personal, such a sacred thing. That's why I can hardly bear to talk for publication about the event before it happens. That's why I have been a shut-in for so long. You have been here five weeks, and you have seen for yourself how tourist cars lined the driveway between...
...these young officers "deplored the corruption of the age and the flippancy of the public mind"-as does every Japanese Army officer. They thought that Japan's "financial magnates only seek to satisfy their avarice"-and so does every Japanese. The assassins objected to the craven attitude of previous Japanese Cabinets in signing the London Naval Treaty of 1930. This pact the new Japanese Cabinet has now repudiated...
...manager of the Canadian subsidiary across the Detroit River in Windsor, Ont. Brother Clinton, baby of the family, is manager of the Highland Park plant. And the Brothers Wood make money. Last week they announced that their business for the past twelve months ran 40% above the same previous period, that profits for the first half of 1936 exceeded...