Word: recording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only one year. She is newer than the Bremen, Europa, Ile de France. The Empress of Britain has such ultra-new luxuries as snip-to-shore telephones in her roomy apartments, full-sized tennis and squash courts, private baths with 70% of cabin-class rooms. She holds the record for the fastest land-to-land crossing of the Atlantic. She is the largest and fastest ship ever to go round the world. She has more space per cabin passenger than any other ship. Empress of Britain still retains the title of the most economical steamship afloat for fuel consumption...
...explained it was a strike against Congress, a belated lobby against a new law, but the fact remained that the 130-hour rule was written into the act at the express request of President Roosevelt's new WPAdministrator, Colonel Francis Clark ("Pink") Harrington. And Franklin Roosevelt was on record, since as early as 1935, as opposing the "prevailing wage" provision demanded (and heretofore obtained) by union labor. In signing the new Relief Act, Franklin Roosevelt noted other "hardships" worked by it (TIME, July 10), but he passed the 130-hour proviso without comment. Evidently he and his Janizariat...
...questionnaires circulated among ministers and churchgoers in recent years, and of the enrollment of the avowed pacifist churches (Quakers, Mennonites, Brethren, Churches of Christ, Assemblies of God). Moreover, some of the biggest Protestant churches, among them the Northern Baptist,' Methodist and Disciples of Christ, have gone on record as claiming for their conscientious objector members the same exemption from combatant service which the Quakers and others will expect. The compilers of the Handbook do not fool themselves as to what will happen to these commitments "in the emotional stress...
...Vocabulary Study of the Congressional Record Since...
Last week the Department of Agriculture, having canvassed hog-farmers in its semiannual survey, announced its best guess for 1939: a six-year record of about 83,000,000. Three days after the estimate was announced, July lard futures fell to 5.7? per pound, a five-year low. Average hog prices in Chicago, which last month hit a five-year low ($6.02½ per cwt.) will not feel the 1939 crop until this fall when pigs farrowed this spring begin to go to slaughter. Chief beneficiaries of the booming pig population: the corn farmers, 40% of whose product will...