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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their money. Yelping with excitement, the crowd (estimated 50,000) surged down the shallow rim of the bowl, and against the bleats of remonstrating policemen, scrambled into the half empty $11 ringside seats. Schmeling fought timidly through the rest of the round like a man reluctantly chastising a smaller brother...
...last week to take delivery of the first effective Navy which Persia has ever had. Built complete in Italy for the dirt-cheap price of $2,000,000, Persia's new Navy consists of two small gunboats mounting four-inch, three-inch and anti-aircraft guns plus four smaller gunboats with three-inch guns. Last week, proudly flying Persia's leonine standard,* the Navy steamed out of Naples, bound for the Persian port of Mohammerah. Officers and crews of the six new ships are 100% Persian, smartly uniformed and painstakingly trained at the Italian Leghorn Naval Academy...
...biggest ships built since the War (51,000 tons), the Rex tore over her 600-mi. course at an average speed of 28 knots, became unofficially "the world's fastest liner."* At times her 125,,000 h. p. turbines drove her bulb-stemmed hull 29 knots. With her smaller sister the S. S. Conte di Savoia, she is Il Duce's supreme bid for traffic over the longer, warmer, and some say smoother southern route. When the Rex ploughs up New York Harbor seven days out of Naples on her maiden voyage in October, she will have sliced...
Some of the vague "improvement noted" indications during August had been translated into definite figures by last week. General Motors reported that during August its dealers sold 13.3% more cars to customers than in July. But, overstocked, they had bought fewer from GM. Smaller companies also reported that August had shown a gain. Bulls were prone to say that the first half of August had been bad, that the gains resulted from a whizzbang finish which may carry into September. They took cheer from the knowledge that the average automobile bouncing along the highway today is four years...
Retail results for August were not satisfactory. The Federal Reserve report on department store sales showed them running 26% behind last year. While there was a gain over July, it was smaller than usual. The first 16 chain stores to report for August showed that they were 15.7% below last year. But last week Dun's reported a "rebound" and said that "the era of sacrifice sales of all sorts . . . either has passed entirely or is about to end." Not increased trade but increased stock exchange business however was the cause of a 3.6% gain in bank clearings during...