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...millions in the stockmarket. Hetty conducted her affairs from any desk she chose in Manhattan's old Chemical National Bank, often ate a lunch of sliced Spanish onions while sitting on the bank's floor at noon. When she died in 1916 at 81 she had increased tenfold, to $67,000,000, the fortune founded by her New England whaling and ship-owning ancestors...
Prodded by irate U. S. tiremen, the State Department last week complained about the price of rubber to the British Government-a logical move since the British International Rubber Regulation Committee is quasi-official. Thanks to the committee's restrictive policy, rubber was above 27? per lb., a tenfold increase over its Depression low (TIME, March...
...that last year's earnings were even more than expected-$14,300,000 as against $10,800,000 the year before. Standard Oil Co. of California reported profits up from $7,500,000 in 1933 to $18,300,000 last year. Colgate-Palmolive-Peet's profits increased tenfold...
...Mussolini family is an inspiring example to Italy," cried General Valle. "Every family should dedicate at least one son to aviation. I predict a tenfold increase in the number of our pilots from 5,000 to 50,000. Vittorio Mussolini, whose exploits in aviation are known to you all, has completed his air pilot's course and is now making solo flights...
Bread cast on the waters of the Manhattan Call Money Market has long since ceased to come back tenfold. Last week call money hit a low of 2% and an average of 3%, compared to a low of 7% and an average of 9% for the corresponding week of 1929. Easy money contributed to an increased activity in both the bond market and the stockmarket, bond sales on the Stock Exchange going to $115,372,500 against $77,834,600 for the previous week and only $50,589,000 for the week a year ago. It was the best bond...