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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moscow correspondents reported that this clause gravely alarmed most of their Russian friends, for the same reason that it set most Germans beaming with elation: it implied that J. Stalin in the ultimate pinch might put the Red Army into World War II on the side of A. Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Moscow's Week | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Both the Chinese and the Japanese last week used the name of Puppet-elect Wang Ching-wei as "reason" for the renewed offensive. Chinese officials warned their own people, and Japanese officials admitted, that the new pressure was intended to intimidate, discourage, force the populace of South China into endorsement of peace under Puppet-elect Wang. But as the Chinese claimed defense of Changsha was stiffening, Japanese admitted that the creation of Wang's Super-Puppetry had been postponed from mid-October to mid-November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Patriots' Peace | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...Another group of worms was doused in "heat-inactivated" pineapple juice; a third in plain salt water. At the end of 24 hours the worms in the heated juice and the salt water were "very lively and active." But those in the fresh pineapple juice were "completely digested" (dead). Reason: fresh pineapple juice contains an enzyme, or ferment, which acts like a corrosive acid on worms. No worm-killer is canned pineapple juice, said the scientists, for the boiling necessary to preserve the juice destroys the anthelmintic enzyme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pineapple for Worms | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...week, stock prices marked time, the Dow-Jones average of 30 industrial leaders fiddled & fussed between the September 12 high of $155.92 and $150 (August 31: $134.41). September's stock buyers wanted to know if they had got ahead of the business procession, if so, how far. One reason why $87.50 seemed a more logical price than $100 for War Baby No. i Bethlehem Steel, was this kind of calculation: the very lowest estimate of September's gift to U. S. warehouses runs at something like $1,000,000,000 of unconsumed production. Meanwhile, standard domestic consumption indices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Month at the Races | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...copper had been stung by the price being pegged at 12? a Ib. (1918 high 26?). Europe was showing no signs of needing U. S. copper. Another World War II flop was wheat, which boomed to 92? first week of September, ended the month at 87? (1918 high: $2.25). Reason: for the week ended Sept. 23, U. S. grain exports totaled 366,000 bushels against 2,779,000 bushels in the same week of 1938. One commodity which had previously got somewhere for some specs was sugar. But this exploded too when Secretary of Agriculture Wallace took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Month at the Races | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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