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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Payoff on Month I of World War II: some plunged in Beth Steel at $go-to-$100, hedged by picking up German Government dollar bonds (which went unnoticed from $5 to $9) on chances that they might go to $25 (netting 400%) if Hitler should happen to get his peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Month at the Races | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Cut-&-dried is the election of A. B. A. presidents. Anything but cut-&-dried is its newest one, Robert March Hanes, 49, president of Winston-Salem, N. C.'s Wachovia Bank & Trust Co. (largest bank between Washington and Atlanta; deposits: $91,000,000). Fond of quail shooting, lively parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Small-Town Banker? | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Beyond the wondering stage and into reality went the San Francisco Exchange, which handles some $100,000,000 in sales annually, could clearly see its business vanishing into other States if "ham-&-eggs" brought the threat of an annual tax of $3,000,000-a tax greater than the total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EXCHANGES: Flight to Reno | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Last week a Kentucky citizens' committee appointed by Mayor Joseph D. Scholtz finished its diagnosis of the aches and pains of Louisville's overexpanded, undernourished-city water system and wrote a prescription. Its remedy: turn the $22,000,000 system over to private operation for ten years. Responsible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Colorado Consolation | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

¶Stepping up per capita kilowatt-hour sales some 148% in twelve years, it has given seven rate reductions. In 1926 the average rate was 8.74? per kwh: today it is 3.78?.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Colorado Consolation | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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