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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...originally told Congress the building would cost $250.000. So far, after several changes of plan, it has cost $544,000. Per cubic foot it cost 43½?, compared to 20? per cubic foot for the nearby Federal Building. Of 1,049 workers on the project's pay roll, only 17.7% were Reliefers; the balance was high-paid labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Hot Pan | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...business hopes. Had purchasing agents been as shrewd as they are tough, they would have finished loading up in July and August when prices were low, instead of waiting until October. As it was, the auto companies had to come back for more when the assembly lines began to roll out the 1939 model in October. They had no choice but to buy at the copper companies' upped price of 11¼? a pound. Fearful that the price might go higher, they then stocked up with enough to carry them through till April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Buying Week | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Motors were the quarter's most dramatic performers. Chrysler doubled sales, General Motors spurted 47%, and, with this improvement as a lever, both sextupled profits over 1938. Both companies nowadays need only a few months of fair business in any year to roll up what most of the U. S. regards as a boom year's profits. With increased volume G. M.'s quarter's earnings ($53,178.000) amounted to 14.4% of sales, compared to 3.3% a year ago. This was a clue to other earnings, for when G. M. earns only 3.3% on sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Earnings | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...fill the vacancy, Governor Henry Horner had appointed James Michael Slattery, 60, chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission, pink, parbald product of the Chicago Democratic machine, campaign manager for Governor Horner and Senator Scott Lucas. Son of a coal-yard foreman, Jimmy Slattery early got on the city pay roll, became secretary of the late Senator Lewis' new law college (Webster), begat eleven children, never won an election for himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Apr. 24, 1939 | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...President's train as soon as it halted in Washington's Union Station, motored with his chief to the White House. There Franklin Roosevelt's first act was to go out to the south portico with his wife, set off their seventh annual Easter Monday egg-roll. To thousands of cheering children, he said: "It is a wonderful day. . . . I wish I could be down there with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Spirit of Warm Springs | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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