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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sperry Corp. owns Ford Instrument Co. which makes naval gunfire control devices in its closely guarded plant at Long Island City, N. Y., recently bought Waterbury (Conn.) Tool Co. and Vickers, Inc., of Detroit, which manufacture hydraulic pumps and variable speed transmissions. But it is proudest of its biggest and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Profits & Secrets | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

If Europe goes to war, U. S. industry, especially heavy industry, expected to be able to live briefly on exports, to sell its No. 1 customer, the United Kingdom, as much war material as her $3,499,000,000 gold reserve will buy (her 1938 purchases in the U. S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Come War, Come Peace | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

If Europe goes back to peace, last week's crisis will also leave an indelible mark on the U. S. economy, forcing agriculture to recognize that its continental market is gone. The new German-Russian agreement ends hope of the U. S. regaining its lost German markets for cotton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Come War, Come Peace | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

At 1919's export peak the U. S. exported 16% of much less production than World War II would stimulate. If war comes, and the U. S. is in it, exports are not likely to take this much of production.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Come War, Come Peace | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Most investment trusts buy securities that they expect to pay dividends and increase in price, and then wait for their hopes to come true. Manhattan's Phoenix Securities Corp., run by a group of hard-headed businessmen (its chairman, bald Wallace Groves, is under indictment in a mail fraud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTMENT TRUSTS: Cola Coup | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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