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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Still a war of nerves . . . therefore a proper precaution to fortify the nervous system with Sanatogen Nerve Tonic Food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Copy for War | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

When President Roosevelt last week invoked the provisions of the Neutrality Act (see p. 9), U. S. aircraft makers were unable to export any more fighting planes. They still had nearly half of recent $160,000,000 British and French orders to deliver but they did not worry. They had stipulated in their contracts that in just this event they should be paid when the planes were delivered to Allied agents within the U. S. The Allies have to take the chance that the Neutrality Act will be modified so that they can use their property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Life Savers | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

Last year Irving Air Chute had net sales of $1,928,400 (retail cost of parachutes: $180 to $300) and netted $398,321. After that record year's business it still had a record backlog of $1,000,000 in unfilled orders. Last week its backlog was a secret but the litter of cablegrams and war orders on the desk of its pink-cheeked, spectacled President George Waite was evidence that last year's sales and Jan. 1's backlog were marks that had long since been erased by the incoming tide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Life Savers | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...first week of World War II hit U. S. stock and bond markets like a whirlwind. Many a man was still alive who remembered that Bethlehem Steel flew from a low of 25 in 1914 to a 1915 high of 600, General Motors from 58⅞ to 558. Last week's main gyrations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETS: Gyrations | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...POLAND: KEY TO EUROPE-Raymond Leslie Buell-Knopf ($3). History has now severely blue-penciled certain passages* in Poland: Key to Europe, by the ex-head of the Foreign Policy Association, now Round Table Editor of FORTUNE. Wonder is, however, that so much of the text can still stand. Candid, exhaustive, lucid, this is still by all odds the best available book on Poland, Europe's "Great Unpredictable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Background for War | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

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