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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slaughter in 46 days of 4,000,000 pigs of 100 lb. or less, thus preventing their glutting the market later at twice their weight. To induce sales, packers would pay above-the-market prices on a sliding scale from $9 per cwt. for 40-pounders or less down to $6 per cwt. for animals between...
...Provisional President went into action not by appointing a Cabinet, which he delayed, but by receiving Mediator Sumner Welles at 11:30 a. m. and twice thereafter during the day. Disorder still reigned in Havana with soldiers and armed members of the A B C (secret-anti-Machado organization) hunting members of the Porra from house to house, killing them brutally when found. In some instances "mercy" was shown, as to Porrista Carlos Souto: he begged and was permitted to shoot himself. Four police officers were seized, lodged in the Central Police Station. ABC members gave them each a pistol...
...four friends who paid a $500 repair bill for him after he cracked up in Chickasha, Okla. while preparing for his round-the-world flight, Flyer Wiley Post gave checks for twice that...
...baton, bobbed his head at the orchestra, beat time with a momentarily free hand. The sympathetic orchestra caught his swift mood, faithfully followed him then and later, through the formidable stretches of the Eroica. Happily convinced, the audience broke in with premature applause even more frequently than usual, twice rose in a body to applaud. Happy José Iturbi applauded the orchestra, grinned when they applauded back...
Died. Harry Cushing Collins, 45, first U. S. citizen to join the Allied Forces in the World War; in a Boston rooming house, after four years' unemployment. Refused enlistment in the regular French Army, he led 26 young U. S. volunteers into the Foreign Legion, was gassed and twice wounded during service in France, Belgium, Serbia, Greece...