Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...declined by 38,000,000 pairs in 1938. After the famine year of 1932 consumption of foodstuffs jumped: average working-class family in Moscow got twice as much meat, twice as much butter and sugar. But in 1932 only 35,000 tons of butter were sold in the Soviet Union, only 49,000 tons of milk. (U. S. consumption: 51,128,000 tons in 1932.) But by 1935, 207,000 tons of milk were sold...
...Germany met in London last week. Their concern : the A above middle C. This A is the note by whose pitch instruments and orchestras are tuned. In the U. S. since 1918 it has been jealously maintained at 440 vibrations per second, but everywhere else the International Broadcasting Union has found "a constant and regrettable tendency to increase the frequency." After due deliberation the conferees agreed that the U. S. frequency should be adopted as standard for the world...
...Union Pacific (Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea; TIME...
Asked, at his country home, by a telephone operator, Roy Barton White, president of Western Union Telegraph Co., personally undertook to deliver a Mother's Day telegram at a farm near Annandale, N. J. The farmer handed Mr. White...
Died. The Right Reverend Robert Lewis Paddock, 69, retired Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Eastern Oregon; after long illness; in Brooklyn, N. Y. Spirited anti-Fascist and American Civil Liberties Union crusader, unorthodox, unconventional Bishop Paddock was continually at odds with the House of Bishops...