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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...immediate danger we were forced to the recourse of extraordinary parliamentary procedure. [Gastounet forced Chamber and Senate to vote him power to put through the budget by decree] Thanks to Parliament we have balanced the budget; effected fiscal reforms; so improved our trade position that since March 1 500 million francs in gold have entered France. We have averted the danger of inflation and consequent bank closings. Because we have restored the health of the State's finances we have been enabled to extend important credits to the farmers. Finally we have reduced unemployment which endangered France socially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Great Little Gaston | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

...tractor. But Caterpillar went into the red when its Red orders stopped. Emergency relief road building programs and public works construction in the U. S. pulled it out late last year. Profits: $2,061,000 for the first six months of 1934 against a deficit of nearly half a million in 1933's first half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Profits | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

...families and interlocked by marriage, own or act as agents for most of Hawaii's sugar plantations. At the turn of the century James D. Dole, no islander but a second cousin of Patriarch Sanford, came out from Boston, and started the pineapple business which made him many a million. After suffering huge losses in 1931 and 1932, his Hawaiian Pineapple Co. was reorganized, and Castle & Cooke took a hand in its management...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Hoomalimali Party | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

...Rule of 87: One twin birth occurs to approximately 87 single births; one triplet to about 7,569 singles (87 squared); one quadruplet to about 658,503 singles (87 cubed); one quintuplet to about 57 million singles (87 to fourth power); one sextuplet to about five billion singles (87 to fifth power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sextuplets, Quintuplets | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

...name of ten million decent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Scholars on Sex | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

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