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Word: muchly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Although machine tools make mass production possible, machine tool building is itself a long-drawn-out, artisan-like process, taking up to two years in specialized cases. To make this bottleneck worse, machine-tool builders are mostly small family concerns, with their own problems of obsolescence, and not too much capital available for expansion. But regular customers, foreign and domestic arms makers and U. S. arsenals all want tools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Bottlenecks | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...reputed antisocial, partly because of a few unsavory incidents, but mainly because the prosperity of the 20s did not last forever. It was tacitly assumed that businessmen as a group were reactionary. But neither the few who spoke for business nor the many who spoke against it had much if any evidence of what businessmen really thought. Recently FORTUNE decided to find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Composite Opinion | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...biggest problem is not merely to stabilize exchange but to find it. For much of the trade given last year to the U. S., Latin Americans got the bulk of their credits from sales of wheat, coffee, meat and other agricultural products to Europe. Today, with the German market gone, and the European neutrals hamstrung by the war's disruption of shipping, Latin America has to find somewhere to sell her goods in order to get money to buy from the U. S. For the present the war needs of the Allies will help fill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Opportunity | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...obstacle to this is that much of what Latin America has to sell is crops and commodities of which in many cases the U. S. has more than enough at home. Given time and ingenuity, mutually profitable trade can be built up. In 1915 U. S. exports to Latin America dropped about 19%, but before the war was out they increased more than 100% over the prewar figures (a substantial increase although partially deceptive because of higher prices). This time the problem is being tackled at the beginning of the war, and the U. S. is no longer a greenhorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Opportunity | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Proverbially, every humorist is at heart a melancholy satirist. Not so Alan Alexander Milne. "It is assumed too readily," he protests, "that a writer who makes his readers laugh would really prefer to make them cry. . . ." Much of the charm of Milne's Autobiography comes from his honest admission that entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poo/j-man | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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