Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vain. The adverse trend up to 1935 was definitely checked. This year's ice sales are estimated at 9% above 1935's. But the effort that checked the trend has not reversed it. In 1926 some 1,500,000 iceboxes were sold; in 1936, best recent year, only 600,000, and in 1936 2,000,000 electric "iceboxes" were sold...
...Champaign, Ill., on the same field where famed Red Grange scored five touchdowns against Michigan 15 years ago, an Illinois team, smarting under Michigan's Coach Crisler's recent boast that Tom Harmon is a greater back than Grange, made Crisler eat crow. Playing inspired football, Bob Zuppke's Illini, who had not won a game this season, bottled Harmon so tightly that he scored only one touchdown, toppled mighty Michigan from the undefeated ranks...
During the recent Congressional debate on neutrality, the slick shipping lobbies worked with might and main to modify the ironclad "carry" provisions backed by the Administration. They got nowhere, but they didn't give up. So, as soon as the Neutrality Act was passed, they bobbed up again with a plan to transfer U. S. ships to Panama registry and sail them into war zones...
...interview, the authority on international law described the recent move by American shipping firms as "hypocrisy," and said, "It constitutes a direct challenge to the Germans to get these ships, and is playing with just the kind of dangerous incident we have been trying to avoid...
...wholesale transfers which began last week are not in accord with the intention of those who wrote and voted for the recent neutrality legislation, Wild believes, since Congress intended that no American ships should carry goods to belligerents, regardless of what flag they were flying...