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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oftener a business can turn over its goods, the better chance it has of profit. One way to check rate of turnover is to divide the gross sales of a firm by the value of its inventory. The first component of TIME'S Index is a similar ratio of turnover. It is obtained by dividing bank debits by bank loans; the result is actually a measure of turnover of borrowed capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Index Year | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...tons transferred from other flags (exclusive of charters), captured or built new. Net loss: 60,000 tons out of a grand total of 21,000,000 tons. For every 1,000 British tons sunk, 110,000 tons reached British ports and nearly 140,000 tons went out, a ratio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Churchill v. Chain Belt | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Included in the tentative plans worked out for the book are a novel cover, and two or three-color division pages. In increasing the number of photographs, the board hopes to reach a 50-50 ratio between pictures and written material...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHAIRMAN OF 1940 ALBUM COMMITTEE DISCLOSES PLANS | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...strong navy is essential to American safety in the present crisis, the senator said. Building up our maritime strength to the allowance of the 5-6-8 ratio need not be interpreted as violating our position as a strictly neutral nation, he remarked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "AMERICA FIRST," URGES WALSH IN A.I.L. SPEECH | 11/16/1939 | See Source »

...years ago he signed a closed shop contract with C. I. O., defying packing industry precedent. He also guaranteed his workers 52 paychecks a year, and this year started a joint earnings plan which lets employes share the Hormel surplus (if any) with stockholders on a profits-wages ratio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Spam for Peace | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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