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Dates: during 1930-1939
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> Some 3,750 submachine guns ($750,000) from Thompson Automatic Arms Corp. Buyer: France.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Profiseering | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Some considerable war purchases in the U. S. have been made and kept dark because of the sellers' craving anonymity; most big deals rumored have yet to be signed & sealed. Biggest is the French purchase of South American copper; 25,000 tons a month for six months. If it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Profiseering | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Significantly, some Pacific Coast planemakers guessed that belligerent purchases had already reached a peak in purchase of combat planes, that future orders would be mostly for training ships. Reason: rising British home production and a growing disrespect for the Nazi airforce. Eastern planemakers, however, felt buying would increase when delivery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Profiseering | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Three months ago some two-thirds of the railroads of the U. S. could be divided into two classes: those insolvent and those not yet insolvent. World War II's boom has not yet fundamentally altered the case. Two Government specialists last week suggested what could be done for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Specialists | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Mack Trucks, Inc. (first in sales of heavy duty trucks): the new $1,145 Mack "Retailer," snoutless, shaped like a loaf of bread, 1½-ton pay load, for door-to-door work. The Mack line has 24 standard models at prices from $675 for 1-ton chassis to some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Trucks, A.D. 1940 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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