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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Missing from these trade figures, moreover, is an item vital to warring Japan. In the last two years she has sold the U.S. $415,209,648 worth of gold, $4,202,856 worth of silver. She is now reported to have only about $140,000,000 of gold on hand. Last week Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. said he was taking a "fresh look" at gold and silver purchases from Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Economic War? | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...real-estate agency across the street from Dubil's butcher shop, joined the venture and they found a ready market for their laminated steaks in other shops. Bill Carpenter named them "Chip Steaks," set out to sell them in a big way. Presently William Dubil sold his patents to Carpenter for 25% of the Chip Steak royalties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Butcher's Luck | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...packed into loaves in metal containers which are quick-frozen, at 15° below zero. After 24 hours of sub-zero freezing they are tempered at 30°, then thin-sliced and packed into six-layer steaks (a super-steak can be made by stacking two such steaks) and sold in two sizes, six-inch ovals for household use, four-and-a-half-inch ovals for restaurants. Housewives can buy them for 10? to 12? each, restaurants sell the small sizes in 15? sandwiches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Butcher's Luck | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...Side with $2 and came back with a bundle of balsawood, twine and glue. Jolly, dark-haired, young Bill Bibichkow took the rest of the capital and came back with a scroll saw. Working after classes at Crane Technical High School they began to turn out model airplane kits, sold the first one for 43?. For the first month of their partnership-October, 1929-their books showed: gross business, $5.59; expenses, $3.35; balance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Model Business | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...commercial airplanes in the air today, as well as many a foreign model. Comet has 6,000 dealers, 20 full-time salesmen, a branch and salesroom in Manhattan. Its models, ranging from the Dawn Patrol Fleet (retail price: five for 5?) to the Comet Clipper ($6.50, less motor), are sold all over the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Model Business | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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