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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 13, 1939 | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drugs and Politics | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

TIME'S Index of Business Conditions, reversing the temporary downtrend shown throughout January, rose 1.6 points last week-from 97.6 to 99.2. Chief cause of the rise was an increase in public spending everywhere except in the ten biggest cities. Business loans continued to decline, reflecting industry's indisposition to go in debt for inventories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Index Up | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

With this issue TIME begins publication of a weekly Index of Business Conditions. Different in objective from the indexes most businessmen know, TIME's index will report on the financial soundness, rather than the volume, of U. S. business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: ANNOUNCEMENT | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...National Machine Tool Builders' Association announced that its index was up 34 points in December over November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Moth Hole? | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

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