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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The income from properties averages about 30% of the upkeep. The 60% remainder is about evenly distributed between taxes and interest. About 10% of the whole income goes to various forms of insurance. Inevitably in about 3 years the owner has lost his equity. The reversion of real estate to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 5, 1929 | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

Hard words wash across the Canadian border into the U. S. in the wake of hard liquor. Last week there was a recrudescence of the argument about the two countries' Prohibition responsibilities. At Ottawa William D. Euler, Canada's Minister of National Revenue whose blunt speaking on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Border Argument | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

Great Britain and the United States henceforth are not to compete in armament as political opponents, but to cooperate as friends in the reduction of it. -HERBERT HOOVER. When Calvin Coolidge quit the White House amid U. S. plaudits he left many a Briton sorely vexed and honestly uneasy lest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Sea Dogs Leashed | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (World's largest in rubber. Daily output of 95,000 tires and tubes, 400,000 pairs of rubber heels. Reorganization of 1921 followed by much litigation, further reorganization in 1927, present management potent and prosperous.) Net profit, first half 12,633,865 3,074,200...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Earnings: Aug. 5, 1929 | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

In Florida last fortnight 25 banks failed. Causes: 1) Halterophora capitata; 2) aftermath of punctured land-booms; 3) gossip. Relative importance of these causes was difficult to determine. It appeared, however, that banks heavily laden with uncollectable land-boom notes found their debtors further handicapped by activities of Halterophora capitata...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Florida's Shakedown | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

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