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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Amtorg and the rest of the Am family have to do with exports and imports. When a consumer's co-operative wants 1,000 U. S. typewriters it goes to Amtorg. Amtorg goes to a typewriter company and buys the typewriters. Then Am-Derutra, which is exclusively a transport company, ships the typewriters to Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Ruble in the Hand | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...little tough, perhaps, and not very tasty, yet between a relatively succulent morsel of horse and a comparatively gristly portion of cow there is not so marked a difference. As for dogs, they are fond of horse meat, ground up and mixed with cereal. In Rockford, Ill., Chappel Co. has a large factory devoted entirely to horses that are going to the dogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Round-Up, Ground Up | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...Dempsey-Gibbons fight (TIME, July 16, 1923) in Shelby, Mont., as the man who won first prize at the accompanying rodeo. With his five helpers, he has already this season rounded up more than 350 horses, many of which will end their days at the Hanson Packing Co., Butte. Mont., horse-cannery. For the wild horse concession, Catcher Skelton has put up a $2,500 bond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Round-Up, Ground Up | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

Famed NELA (National Electric Light Association) last week convened at Atlantic City for its 52nd convention and exhibition. There able Matthew S. Sloan, head of New York Edison Co., said that the electric industry could well grant lower rates on current for domestic use, that such rates would result in greater use of vacuum cleaners, of electric irons, clothes washers and other household electric appliances, that rate reductions were always followed by pleasing increases in amounts of current consumed. Delegates also heard Oklahoman J. F. Owens, head of NELA's publicity, concede that there was "food for thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Less Cost & Propaganda | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

Long established, conservative, is the Manhattan brokerage house of F. B. Keech & Co., No. 52 Broadway. Newly opened and modernistic, however, is the Brooklyn office of this same concern. Designed by Mrs. H. Lawrence Carpenter, wife of Brooklyn Office Manager H. L. Carpenter, the Keech & Co. suite in the Williamsburg Savings Bank Building tower is fitted up like the interior of a yacht. Thus ships' bells chime out the hours, and sunlight enters not through windows but through portholes. The office has also a special room for women-traders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Yacht in Tower | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

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