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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago Colonel Thompson finally reached an agreement with the Ryan estate. For $529,000 the heirs of Thomas Fortune Ryan agreed to sell their Auto-Ordnance stock, write off $1,090,000 in notes for money advanced to the old company. Other stockholders (including the heirs of Commander Blish) agreed to trade their shares for stock in new Thompson Automatic Arms Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUNITIONS: Chopper | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...Richman brothers began to sell stock to employes, usually at one-half the market price. Best of these melon-cuttings was the first. Employes were offered shares at $16.67 (market price $42) and, before workers had finished paying for it, it paid dividends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Daddy | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Government Securities: To check the rise in Government securities in March, April, May, the U. S. Treasury had various Government trust funds sell $90,000,000 of their Governments, but investors with nothing better to do in the last two weeks bid Government securities up to new highs (over 114), thereby reducing interest rates to metaphysical fractions. So New York's great National City Bank complained for all U. S. banks (who now have 60% of their funds invested in Governments): "Treasury bills [are] selling at the virtually non-existent yield of 0.004%, and all maturities of Treasury notes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: H. H. Treatment | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...only country that can sell in Brazil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...Agreed to sell them more munitions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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