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One month after Ivar Kreuger shot himself to death in his Paris apartment in 1932, Manhattan's Irving Trust Co. was appointed receiver to conserve the assets of International Match Corp., the Swedish swindler's principal U. S. sinkhole. According to Kreuger's handmade balance sheets, Match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Match Dividend | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

Price-fixing was written into the Oil Code on the ground that it would help conserve a great natural resource. Hordes of hungry businessmen from other prostrate industries were soon loudly demanding the same thing. Before the battle of the codes was done, NRA was fixing garage rentals, dry-cleaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Unpriced Lumber | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

With pained aplomb the leading yarn makers of the Empire held a quiet mass meeting last week in Manchester. They had given His Majesty's Government sleepless nights by closing their mills, throwing 50,000 of the King's subjects out of work (TIME, Aug. 13). This was their decorous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Lancashire Let Down | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

In an effort to conserve the Fatherland's dwindling store of foreign exchange-sure to be needed to buy vital food imports next winter-Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht recently decreed a sweeping moratorium (TIME. June 25). Last week British threats of retaliation broke the moratorium as far as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Crux of Crisis | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

C. H. NASH Memphis, Tenn. Sirs: FOR YOUR INFORMATION WE THE SHELBI LEADING SECRET ORGANIZATION OF THE MEMPHIS COTTON CARNIVAL RESENT YOUR BIASED ARTICLE IN TIME NEXT YEAR PLEASE KEEP YOUR WHITE TRASH IN CHICAGO AND SEND US A GENTLEMAN REPORTER THE SHELBI Memphis, Tenn. Budd's Face Sirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 18, 1934 | 6/18/1934 | See Source »

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