Word: previously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play. Moreover, if the Government should subsidize one manufacturing business, where then could it stop, at automobiles or animal crackers, at zeppelins or zithers? Last month, in ordering 60,000,000 yards of cotton textiles for its sewing projects (an increase of 45,000,000 yards over previous orders), WPA explained that one reason for expanding the order was to make work for the textile mills. But so far. Franklin Roosevelt has resisted every pressure for subsidizing labor through industry...
...their purse strings. The total touched bottom in February. Subsequent figures, charted with seasonal allowances, show that since early March public buying has held at a fairly even pace. Last week's bank debits were $6,850,000, 18% under a year ago but the same as the previous week. Significance: though production of goods is still dropping, buying has apparently steadied-an optimistic sign...
...Belvedere Palace. One of the things they talked about was getting married. They had been thinking about it for some time, but Chancellor Schuschnigg, a devout Roman Catholic, could not marry a divorced woman. Last December, the Vatican came to their aid by annulling the Countess' previous marriage, without stating grounds. But the Church asked the Chancellor not to marry as long as he was in power. With Anschluss, the Nazis opened up the hymenal way but shut up the former Chancellor...
...late great Admiral Lord Beatty and grandson of Chicago's Marshall Field. Owner Beatty, who received $46,140 first-place money, was as surprised as the rest of the world. Bois Roussel, whom he had bought for $40,000 two months ago, had won only one previous race, the Prix Juigné at Longchamp last spring...
...minor court skirmishes to get Alcoa finally to court in Manhattan last week for the main show. Nonetheless, Alcoa asserts it has not delayed unnecessarily, that it is eager for the trial, all issues of which it says have been amply aired and settled by previous investigations and trials...