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An equally neat anomaly was to be found between 1939 and 1929's production and employment figures. At 120 the production index virtually duplicated 1929's peak (126), but 1939's unemployment is around 9,000,000. This is largely due to the fact that some 500...
So bitterly outspoken against censorship were Britain's publishers in the first weeks of the war that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was forced to separate censorship from the Ministry of Information, reorganize both. But the French press, except for sly references to Anastasie, is not even allowed to point...
French editors are especially chagrined because they cannot publish photographs taken under the eyes of French military authorities at the front. The same pictures appear in British journals which are read in France; but they cannot be transmitted to any neutral country. Telegrams and cables, no matter where they originate...
Like most other U. S. businesses, Curtis Publishing hit its earnings zenith in 1929, when it reported a net of $21,534,265, an all-time high for any publishing enterprise. Holders of its 7% preferred (of which 722,714 of 900,000 shares are now held by the public...
Except by comparison with its past records and its huge preferred dividend requirements, Curtis did not do badly in Depression or Recovery. But for 1938 Curtis was able to report a net of only $1,279,163, declared only $1.50 for the year on its preferred. For the first nine...