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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...competitors regard as its inexcusable policy of undercutting has worked out well for Great Northern. It has $42,600,000 total assets, no funded debt, and an earned surplus of $16,000,000. It has paid dividends regularly since 1909. In 1936 its profits were $1,200,000, an amount not remarkable for a company of its size but very comforting to Mr. Whitcomb when he reflects that not so long ago 40% of all North American newsprint capacity was bankrupt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Publishers' Pains | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

From a saleable standpoint, however, officials observed that the gold content of the objects stolen would amount to only $200 at the most...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $300 REWARD OUT FOR INFORMATION IN PEABODY ROBBERY | 1/5/1938 | See Source »

...producers find a certain amount of difficulty in fitting in the dance sequences without straining the plot, but Astaire has to be given a chance to dance somewhere. Burns and Allen assist him in a couple of his dance scenes and are generally able to keep up to his nimble feet...

Author: By J. J. R. jr., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 1/5/1938 | See Source »

...offensive has been eight weeks delayed, apparently had other troubles to contend with. All week he kept the French and Portuguese frontiers tight shut, but rumors continued to leak through: A "vast conspiracy by foreign elements" had threatened the lives of Franco & several of his officers and a large amount of cash had been stolen from the Rightist treasury at Salamanca...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Teruel Nipped | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...less than 80 days; 4) a general picture of a benign, well-wishing, patriotic character who knows that in the war between good and evil, the thought of the "suffering endured at any minute by millions of men" is made bearable only by the thought of "the tremendous amount of kindness at work ... at that same minute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Abbe | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

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