Word: previously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...husband of an ardent Irishwoman and the man who defended Ireland in the terroristic days of the Black & Tan. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was pleased to find that de Valera no longer went off in rambling monologues or rattled the ghost of Cromwell as he did at previous Anglo-Irish meetings...
...previous years, before the new Constitution, the Praesidium will rule Russia as the chief organ of Government, exercising by decree the executive and legislative functions, having the judicial right of pardon. But the Praesidium, once a roster of Russia's most distinguished Old Bolsheviks, now has a majority of New Bolsheviks, many so new in the Dictator's favor that they are quite unknown to the Russian people. Only one list of 37 names was offered as candidates for the Praesidium. An announcement was made in passing that this list had been prepared by the "Council of Elders...
...radio blurbs, on roadside handbills. Some 200,000 well-drilled chain-store workers urged even illiterate housewives to buy jumbos, red kidneys, yellow eyes, chile or limas. This high pressure was no stunt. It was the latest application of a new economic device notably successful in its 15 previous tests. Its enthusiasts describe it as some-thing to put AAA to shame, for it works on the positive principle of reducing surpluses-not by reducing production but by increasing consumption...
...California. But it had been attempted on a nation-wide scale for the first time only a month before the conference between farmers and chains. California cling peach growers found themselves with a carry over from 1935 of 6,469,000 cases of canned peaches, 72% more than the previous year. With a big 1936 crop impending, it appeared that peach prices might drop to $15 per ton, substantially less than the cost of production. Growers appealed to the chains. Ted Braun and National Association of Food Chains' Vice President John A. Logan made careful but speedy preparations...
Next plea came from cattlemen forced because of 1936 drought to sell their beef at any price. The July slaughter was 25% over the previous year and many a rancher faced ruin. But the chains, with the aid of numerous packers, put on sales pressure. Chain-store beef sales jumped 34% in August over August 1935; the price of choice steers rose from $8.58 in June to $10 in September; cattlemen received more August income than the previous five-year average; the Government had to buy only 5,000 head to hold up the market instead...