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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...largest Dutch steamship companies were 32,400,000 florins in 1913; 141,147,000 in 1916. Gold flowed into Dutch banks (as it also piled up in Swedish, Norwegian, Swiss and Spanish banks). But taxes went up. It cost the Dutch $600,000,000 to keep half a million men idle for four years along the German and Belgian frontiers and to intern prisoners from both sides...
...Government, under Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage, elected first in 1935 and re-elected last year, has raised wages, reduced working hours, increased Government insurance, liberalized pensions, has raised taxes and has scared capital away. Moreover, world wool prices suddenly dropped. New Zealand found herself exporting only a few million dollars worth of goods more than she was importing, so that debt services in London were harder than ever to meet. The country's sterling reserves dwindled from $143,085,000 to $34,035,000. On top of this, an $85,000,000 loan is to mature in London...
...lines. He scoured the U. S. and Europe for the blood he wanted. He evidently got what he was looking for. Last spring Horse & Horseman selected Woodward's 19-year-old Marguerite?whose four colts (Petee-Wrack, Gallant Fox, Fighting Fox and Foxbrough II) have earned over a half million dollars?as the most eminent broodmare in America. When in 1923 William Woodward felt that he was ready to pit his thoroughbreds against the best in the U. S., he began to race...
...Japan last year went 7.7% ($239,639,000) U.S. exports; from Japan came 6.5% ($126,828,000) of U.S. imports. Small as this was in the U.S. total it represented 16.6% of Japan's foreign exports, made the U.S. her No. 1 customer. By toting up this million-dollar-a-day business, Japan could see that...
...When John Jacob Astor II went down on the Titanic, most of his fortune went to 20-year-old Son Vincent, only a few million to Son John Jacob III, then unborn. Since Vincent has no direct heirs, William is heir apparent to both fortunes...