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...what in the world good are several hundred copies in my basement ? I can give them away ... or better, solicit TIME'S help, among its readers, for a better, more profitable method of disposition. Is there some rich, retired seaman, or world-traveler, who would like an index of all these books, willing to pay for them, ship them to some far away place...
Most revealing index of the nervous condition of a nation lies in sales records of sleeping powders. Last fortnight an unnamed Berlin correspondent of the London Telegraph and Post showed that the fiery speeches of Adolf Hitler were giving Germans the jitters, keeping them awake all night. The rise in sales of German sleeping powders during the last two years, he wrote, has been "phenomenal...
...National Machine Tool Builders' Association announced that its index was up 34 points in December over November...
...recovery from 1933, commodities kept pace with business revival until the index hit 88.3 in April 1937 (v. 59.6 in 1933). Then, after Franklin Roosevelt remarked that certain prices were rising too fast, commodities hit the skids of Depression II. Since last summer when the industrial and financial tide turned again, commodities have kept right on sagging...
...William H. Black last summer against Bethlehem Steel's august Chairman Charles M. Schwab and a batch of lesser bigwigs. Mr. Schwab failed to recall what happened between 1927 and 1934 when the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, which he once headed, lost $215,000 on an engineering index. Members sued to recover, and Justice Black found against Tycoon Schwab's "inconceivable ignorance" (TIME, June 20). Last week the Appellate Division delivered a decision, devoid of Justice Black's wit and invective, unanimously reversing his opinion: "Defendants acted in good faith. . . . None profited...