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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Buick has added two new series to its four stand-by straight-eights, claims 70 new mechanical achievements. It is lower, bolder-curved. Down in price from $17 to $281, it sells for $895 to $2,199 (lowest price range in company's history). Standard on some models are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Motormakers' Holiday | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Many another claim to fame has Financier Prince. Among them: he boasts that at various times he has owned 46 different railroads, that he has built four, that at the height of his operations he was good for $20,000,000 personal credit; he is reported to have refused $50...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Deny That Rumor! | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Copper. But on the outskirts of the buying rush stand some industries which have already passed the peak mark of sales, are declining. Typical is copper, which the Allies have passed by in favor of purchases from African, Chilean, and Canadian sources; Germany, in favor of Balkan metal. In September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Boom | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Sabotage (Republic) starts out right innocently as that folksy love story about the young airplane mechanic and the traveling show girl in the quietest little Mid-American village in Hollywood. But when it shows U. S. average citizens organized by some mysterious agency to wreck airplanes, spoil machines, plant bombs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 16, 1939 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

The prints and paintings now on exhibit at Fogg Museum, when considered as a whole, can very easily turn a dull Cambridge afternoon into a few hours of interesting exploration. It is possible for one to travel from the highly sophisticated spirit of medieval Chinese art to the outspoken religious...

Author: By Jack Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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