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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reduction 1,523 1,019 Allis-Chalmers 1,170 482 American Bank Note 722 104 Aviation Corp. (Del.) 863 D 334 D Byers (cast iron pipe) 331 49 Borg Warner 1,097 325 Caterpillar Tractor 3,365 1,031 Chrysler Corp. 180 979 D Corn Products Refining 3,152 2,389 Curtis Publishing 6,533 4,654 General Electric 15,042 11,488 General Foods 5,990 5,572 General Motors 44,968 28,999 Gillette 2,164 1,421 Hudson Motor Car 2,316 226 Hupp Motor Car 66 680 D McGraw-Hill Publishing 534 372 Montgomery Ward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Sorry Quarter | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

...Jackson named them, for other saccharifiers to recognize, d-fructose 1, 2, and 3. Although inulin-derived fruit sugar suitable for household and factory use will soon be sold as cheaply as grape (corn sugar is the same) or cane sugar (a more complex sugar), fruit sugar purified for laboratory research costs $27.22 a pound. Dr. Jackson's three new sugars are not for sale. To produce the small quantities he has, cost at the rate of $50,000 a pound. Laboratory inulin costs $90 a pound. Its natural sources are dandelions, dahlias, goldenrod and. above all, the Jerusalem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Three New Sugars | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

Duke students are not yet distinguishable from their contemporaries at other inland institutions. They paint DUKE on their slickers, have "dates" with the coeds, occasionally buy a fruit jar of corn liquor. They talk hopefully of their teams (their baseball team beat Cornell last month; they are proud of their new football coach, Wallace Wade). The local Greek-letter fraternities have no houses of their own, but the members of different brotherhoods are allowed to bunch themselves in the dormitories for a sort of "house plan" life?Kappa Alpha in Kilgo House, Sigma Alpha Epsilon in Craven House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In a Carolina Forest | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

...executed, a feat which he announces after consulting his pocket almanac. The Yankee organizes factories in which modern appliances are turned out for the use of medieval people and sends the knights out riding with sandwich boards slung over their armor advertising corn cure, liver pills. fountain pens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 20, 1931 | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

...Cornelius Vanderbilt, whose directorships include Chase National Bank, Illinois Central Railroad, and Saratoga Association for the Improvement of the Breed of Horses; Phillip Ream Clarke, president of Central Trust Co. of Illinois; Frank Overton Watts, chairman of First National Bank in St. Louis; George Monroe Moffett, vice president of Corn Products Refining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Large Ghost Laid | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

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