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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sugar Crash. Sugar soured the nature of El Gallo. While Cuba remained prosperous no one objected violently to President Machado's habit of lining his pockets with a little of every money-making concern on the island. His extravagant interest in ladies was excused as Latin temperament, as was his passion for bloody and immediate vengeance. But Cuba's prosperity depends on sugar and sugar crashed long before Wall Street. Following several recoveries and relapses after its first crash in 1921, sugar collapsed completely in 1930. The money that he so ardently desired could only be collected from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Peten's Passenger | 5/15/1933 | See Source »

...Gettler, "was loaded with bichloride of mercury. Sweet woman." Both murderers have been electrocuted. Wilmer Stultz, flyer who carried Amelia Earhart on her first trip across the Atlantic, was drunk, his brain subsequently proved to Toxicologist Gettler, when he killed himself and two passengers in a Long Island crash. Eben McBurney Byers. the Pittsburgh industrialist who died after prolonged drinking of radium water (TIME. April 11. 1932). "took the stuff," said Dr. Gettler. "for rejuvenation. He was a good man. He gave it to his friends. At first you feel fine. It bucks you up, for maybe six months. Then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Test-tube Sleuth | 5/15/1933 | See Source »

...have succeeded his brother, Sir John Maitland Salmond, as Air Chief Marshal of the Royal Air Force. Died. Mrs. Genevieve A. Clark, her husband Daniel, their sons Rowland, 10, and Dean, 7; by their own hands (carbon monoxide); on a country road 15 mi. south of Minneapolis. The crash of Wilbur Burton Foshay's Northwestern utilities empire in 1929 brought him & associates, two years later, Federal charges of using the mails to defraud. After an eight-week trial. Mrs. Clark, only woman member of the jury, hung the case by singly holding out for acquittal (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 8, 1933 | 5/8/1933 | See Source »

President Roosevelt's decision to abandon gold as the basis of U. S. currency had its roots in developments weeks, months, years ago. The echo of the 1929 stock crash had hardly died away be fore the political cry for more and cheaper money took its place. This cry increased as the value of the dollar climbed higher and higher against the value of goods. President Hoover bucked the demand for currency inflation by attempts at credit inflation, most of them unsuccessful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Riding the Wave | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

...then he has had one du Pont job after another: black powder, sporting powder, guncotton. smokeless powder, cellulose. General Motors, Pyroxylin, safety glass. Four years ago the du Ponts gave him the toughest job of all: made him president of U. S. Rubber just a few months before the crash. U. S. Rubber, the only great non-Akron rubber company, has had a hard row to hoe, even for a rubber company. Its annual deficits have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Hearts and Prices | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

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