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...sound finance, yielding to the extraordinary fiscal demands of a powerful President. One by one, Governor Black saw the important functions of the Reserve System taken away ? its control of the currency, its control of credit. Future financiers will know whether his yielding saved the System from com plete destruction or paved the way for its complete downfall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Black Out | 8/27/1934 | See Source »

...General proceeded to Newark Airport, to Cleveland, to Chicago, to St. Louis. He found two-way radios with ranges up to 400 mi. were being installed on Army planes. Landing lights were being attached. Beacon signals were being improved and a teletype weather reporting system was nearly com plete. Old-type observation ships were being outfitted with artificial horizons, di rectional gyroscopes, new compasses and flight instruments. Work was progressing feverishly on new bombers in the Martin factory near Baltimore. . His inspection trip convinced General Foulois that the Army was now ready to -make a fresh -start with the airmail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Standstill | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

Mail Order Insurance. Exciting to the insurance trade was news last week that 13 officials of Sears. Roebuck & Co. had acted as incorporators of a new insurance company. Called All-State Insurance Co., the firm will write accident, health, burglary and theft insurance as well as com- plete automobile coverage. Carl L. Odell, Chicago insurance broker, is reported to be the chief sponsor of the new company. He said last week that, first of all, automobile insurance will be solicited from Sears, Roebuck employes. But no imagination was required to see Sears, Roebuck adding insurance to its big mail-order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Deals & Developments | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

...well supported by the interest which he still holds in the Union & Leader. To succeed Col. Knox, Publisher Hearst named Thomas J. White, vice president of International Magazine Co., Inc., onetime employe of J. P. Morgan & Co.'s export department. His first task will be to com plete a careful reduction in personnel, ordered last fortnight by Publisher Hearst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Knox Out | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

Significance. Chiang Kai-shek's withdrawal reduced to insignificance the offshoot Nationalist regime at Nanking which Chiang had headed* placing the parent nationalist regime at Hankow once more in com plete mastery of nationalist affairs. Nominally the "Christian" War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang intervened in the interest of Hankow; but his reputation for treachery is such that Chinese thought that he would soon attempt to seize the whole Nationalist territory himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Hero Falls | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

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