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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Significantly, some Pacific Coast planemakers guessed that belligerent purchases had already reached a peak in purchase of combat planes, that future orders would be mostly for training ships. Reason: rising British home production and a growing disrespect for the Nazi airforce. Eastern planemakers, however, felt buying would increase when delivery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Profiseering | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

White, Federal and Diamond T trucks, and most trucks made by the automobile companies, went on display downstairs from the gaiety of Chicago's regular Auto Show. Sixty blocks away at Navy Pier, National Motor Truck Show, Inc. (grumbling that Automobile Manufacturers Association had hogged half of its exhibitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Trucks, A.D. 1940 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Forty years ago able Will Keith Kellogg quit the business managership of his brother Dr. John Harvey's Michigan Sanitarium and Benevolent Association in Battle Creek, founded the Sanitas Nut Food Do., Ltd., to manufacture the health foods the doctor fed his patients. His little firm, now the Kellogg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: 40 Years Later | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

"Contrary to current impression, Sid doesn't spend his days leaning over a washtub and I don't do the ironing," said Partner Shields, kidded by fellow men-about-town. Nevertheless, Socialites Wood and Shields-one the owner of a California gold mine and the other a Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rackets and Washtubs | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Last fortnight the British Lion, which since World War II began has been trying to roar like an airplane engine, took off with a movie glorifying Britain's air defenses. It was called The Lion Has Wings. Conceived by Ian Dalrymple, who scripted The Citadel, edited by American William...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Air Lion | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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