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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...export peak the U. S. exported 16% of much less production than World War II would stimulate. If war comes, and the U. S. is in it, exports are not likely to take this much of production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Come War, Come Peace | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...when on a peak in Darien, Vasco Nunez de Balboa, after slogging through malarial jungles, emerged in sight of the Pacific. First man to hit upon the idea of an interoceanic canal was Balboa's companion, Alvaro de Saavedra Ceron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: After Balboa | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...roof. Topped off by four million-share days, the Dow-Jones average hopped ten points (to 144.71) from July n to July 21. It seemed almost within reach of its 1939 high (154-85) and its 1938 high (158.41). Last week stock which was sold at the July peak could be bought back for ten points less. Those who profited by this turn of events were chiefly professional traders. SEC has since reported that at the peak, in the last half of July, while the public was buying heavily, Exchange members did 78% of all short selling. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Out of Pattern | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...approaching this. Said Sloan: "Automobile sales will be fully as good as last year." Said Keller: "The immediate prospect seems to be that business will continue at current levels, or possibly show some improvement " A generous estimate of "some improvement" might put the Federal Reserve index at a fall peak of between 105 and no, to a fourth-quarter average perhaps 5% above 1938's 101 (average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Out of Pattern | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...when Herman Melville finished writing Moby Dick, the golden age of U. S. whaling (1820-50) was on its way out. It probably hit its peak around 1846 when lusty Yankee whalers out of New Bedford and other New England ports came home with some $8,000,000 worth of crude whale oil. But by 1900 the U. S. industry had passed into history due to the exploitation of cheap petroleum products and a scarcity of whales. Since then it has revived, but last week it appeared that it might be doomed once more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISHERIES: Tax | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

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