Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile a startling dearth of pork began to make news. The Chicago stockyards last week received less than 50,000 hogs compared to 250,000 to 300,000 hogs a week in recent years. As measured by pork, the living standard of the U. S. was down to a fifth of normal. The price of hogs soared to $12.05 a cwt. exclusive of processing tax-an indication that Mrs. Zuk would soon have more friends, that there would soon be more angry butchers...
...this was capped by a reversal of French economic foreign policy which has sought of recent years to protect home industry by rigid quotas limiting imports. Since other nations have retaliated in kind against French exports, Premier Laval decreed a general procedure of scrapping quotas and replacing them with reciprocal tariff agreements, hoping to induce other nations by friendly negotiation to admit more French wares as France admits more foreign goods...
...Austrian opera singer, longtime prima donna of the Metropolitan Opera Company, divorced wife of Baron Leopold von Popper de Podhragy of Hungary; and Winfield Richard ("Winnie") Sheehan, 51, onetime New York World police reporter, long-time (1926-35) vice president of Fox Films in charge of production until his recent resignation (TIME,, July 29); in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...radial and thrust loads are encountered simultaneously in road curves, twists and shocks. Timken tapered roller bearings are standard equipment on nearly every car except those of General Motors which has its own New Departure and Hyatt bearings. Timken also makes bearings for other industrial uses. Its most significant recent milestone was the locomotive bearing first introduced in 1930. In April 1935, there were 500 Timken-equipped locomotives, 2,000 Timken-equipped passenger cars...
Meanwhile the Japanese Cabinet, just before the Vanity Fair incident burst, tried last week to settle the recent months of quarrel about Emperor Hirohito's exact status by a solemn and fervent pronouncement. Excerpt...