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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More than its quality made the Sullivan sale significant. As the first major auction of modern French painting since dealers' prices in this field skyrocketed in the '203, it gave ever-suspicious private buyers a line on whether prices had been puffed up unduly. With collectors making most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pioneer | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Last week President Donald Lamont Brown of United Aircraft Corp., which owns Pratt & Whitney, could have been expected to pinch himself as he looked over the production report of his engine division. Sawing away at a backlog of something like $100,000,000 (United's total backlog: above $115...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Silver Platter | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Not the least remarkable part of this 300% increase in production is the new plant. It will double P. & W.'s floor space, and the building will cost United not a dime. To speed up deliveries on orders for $60,000,000 or more worth of warplane engines and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Silver Platter | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Three months ago they turned out their first unit: a portable derrick high enough (84 feet) to pull the double-jointed tubing of the deeper wells. One of its two sections telescoped inside the other to make it short enough to transport. Shell tried it, liked it, bought two at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Derrick's End? | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Kollsman Instrument Co. employed more than 400 men in its Elmhurst, N. Y. plant and its Glendale, Calif, branch factory, acquired a one-year backlog of instrument orders for outfitting new planes, received royalties on Kollsman's 200 patents. But no outsider really knew what it was worth until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Mr. Kollsman's Number | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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