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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...machine tool industry-which makes the machines with which other industries make goods-is no monster economic unit. In a peak year it may gross $200,000,000, about as much as the automobile industry (cars and trucks) grosses in an average month. But it is a key unit -when other industries stagnate it stagnates, when others expand it is busy. For ten years the machine tool industry has lived mainly on orders from 1) the automobile industry; 2) foreign buyers (British, Japanese, German) who wanted to make goods at home instead of buying from the U. S.; 3) more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Fairy Tale | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...muggy morning in 1932, a 33-year-old Maryland real estate man named Sterling Grover Harris (who had made a good thing of buying Eastern Shore lands from farmers, reselling to rich Northerners) wandering around the Chesapeake Bay fish-docks, found a Negro shoveling savory blue crabs into an incinerator. No slugabed, Businessman Harris poked his nose into the crab industry, found 1) that blue crabs will keep for only a few days in ice, 2) that they had never been canned successfully, because their flesh turned a poisonous-looking blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISHERIES: Blue Crabs | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...steam shovel, grubbing gravel from the Kenton, Ohio, pits for the roadbed of the new Chicago & Atlantic Railroad (now Erie). Irritated by repeated breakdowns of his crude machine, he built a model of a better one, showed it to farm machinery maker Edward Huber. Practical Mechanic Huber knew a good thing when he saw it. He got together with Inventor Barnhart and Hayman George W. King, founded the Marion Steam Shovel Co., began turning out the "Barnhart shovel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Shovels Up | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Today the industry has $332,500,000 of unfilled orders for the U. S. and foreign governments, and good-sized commercial orders. Douglas for example last fortnight got orders totaling $3,000,000 for DC-3s from American Airlines, Chicago & Southern Air Lines, and Braniff Airways, recently sold $3,000,000 worth of big DC-4s to United Air Lines. Lockheed has an order for $180,000 worth of commercial planes for Venezuela-possibly a precursor of other big South American orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: 1,000 Planes a Month? | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...profit; last year the company was back in the red, almost $500,000; last week Marion's big, handsome, conservative president, James Hatton Waiters, a crack salesman (who had been on the verge of recapitalizing the company), suddenly observed that apparently Marion was about to have a "very good year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Shovels Up | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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