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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Main U. S. interest in Bolivia is still tin. The U. S. imports about 45% of the world's tin, has no mines in her own boundaries, a small one in Alaska. Basic war material, indispensable for the manufacture of bearings, tin travels far to reach its biggest market. There are big smelters in the Malay Peninsula, in The Netherlands and Great Britain, but the small smelters of the U. S. refine only a minute proportion, and Bolivian tin reaches the U. S. after a trip to Britain. Facing a possible war shortage, Bolivian tin has figured largely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Busch Putsch | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...runs 50 to 60 miles on a gallon of gasoline. Two quarts of oil fill its crankcase, four gallons of gas its fuel tank. At $325 for the coupe, $25 more for the sedan, it will undersell by $62 the only other U. S. midget on the automotive market, the American Bantam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Little Fellow | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...Richmond, Ind. and an older plant in Cincinnati, on May 15 Crosley Corp. expects to start production with 200 cars a day, sell them through the 25,000-odd Crosley agencies, where they can be rolled in at most front doors, displayed on sales floors among radios and refrigerators. Markets which Crosley dealers will go for hardest: the man who cannot afford a new higher-priced car; the family with one standard car which could use a second for shopping, commuting, taking the children to school. But, as Willys has found, the market for cars that can be built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Little Fellow | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

About the same date ex-Plunger Joseph Patrick Kennedy, on vacation from the U. S. Embassy in London, reached home. Whatever he thought privately about economic conditions, he said in his public capacity that only a war would put the market (and therefore business) down to where it was in the grim spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Soggy Spring | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Largest and most active of the general market molders is Chicago Molded Products Corp., operated by the four Bachner Brothers. Sons of a Chicago watchmaker, the Brothers Bachner started as diemakers in a dingy Chicago shop in 1919, organized their own plastics company in 1924 to do their own molding on their own dies. That year their net sales were $10,000. Last year their net sales were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Plastic Prospects | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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