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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trade agreements if ever they provably hurt the U. S. farmer. Next day they meekly adopted a resolution supporting Mr. Hull. For, if they were not quite farsighted enough to be enthusiastic for Mr. Hull's plain point that a nation has to buy in order to sell, they, like the rest of the U. S., clearly recognized the highmindedness of Mr. Hull's perennial principle: world peace through world trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Barn Door | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Federal Grand Jury found on Chicago's doorstep not just milk-bottles, but a milk monopoly that fixed prices to farmers and customers, controlled supply and distribution, harassed and coerced independents who tried to sell milk at lower prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Milk | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...wonder, a disguised Egyptian policeman recently offered to buy a mangy and decrepit old camel for $40, about 20 times its apparent value. The astonished moppets' beady eyes grew even wider as the camel's Arab owner not only turned down this princely offer but refused to sell at any price-and was promptly arrested. Disemboweling the old camel, police found it had been forced to swallow zinc cylinders containing narcotics by Arab smugglers who recently have been driving a surprising number of decrepit camels from Palestine into Egypt. Flushed with success, the Egyptian police promptly disemboweled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Stomachic Victory | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Belgrade was as sensitive as Bucharest to the Allied-German string-pulling in her part of Europe. Yugoslavia's most immediate problem was copper. The Yugoslav copper mines, largest of Europe, are operated by French and British companies which no longer sell to Germany. Moreover, a French trade delegation is scheduled to arrive soon in Belgrade with the explicit purpose of buying up all this copper output. The special Yugoslav dilemma is whether to expropriate the mines and let the output go to Germany, in which case the country may risk an Allied blockade, or whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE DANUBE: Puppet Strings | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...Important are millinery departments managed by syndicates, on lease, in department stores. One trick of less responsible syndicates: 1) to use a store's good name to sell bad goods at a high price, later move on to a new store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Mad Hatters | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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