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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among successful belchers in good society: a New York lawyer who argues cases in court, a Philadelphia magistrate, several teachers. During the past month, Dr. Levin, with Dr. Chevalier Lawrence Jackson, has shown belching sound films before the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, the American College of Surgeons. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Belch-Talk | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

> Exports, counted on since September to absorb overproduction, still got nowhere. Brightest spot was Latin America: October takings were up 14% from September, 18% from October 1938. But cash buying is a luxury for Latin America necessitated by War II's cutting down its barter trading with Europe. By...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: For Pessimists | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Forced to import some 70,000,000 hides (15% of its cattle hides, 25% of its calf, 50% of its sheep, all of its goat skins) a year, the industry has seen hide prices jump 10 to 30% since the advent of World War II. But shoe prices are only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Shoes Up | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

To the U. S. aircraft industry, Canadian Associated's orders, on the book and in prospect, would be nothing to go into a barrel roll over. (Seven U. S. builders have backlogs of over $20,000,000 each; two, over $60,000,000 each.) But the Canadian industry probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: War in Canada | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Philadelphia Plan | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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