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Dates: during 1930-1939
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He was first publicly noted in 1933. Then Chicago's biggest bank, the Continental Illinois, which had taken a bad licking in Willys Overland, and on Insull securities, was the first big time U. S. bank to step up and take advantage of Jesse Jones's offer to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Out of Hock | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

At 8:30 Judge Walter C. Lindley took his seat on the bench and the jury of farmers and merchants stumbled into the box. The 17 sat ramrod-straight as the farmer-foreman handed up the verdict. The clerk began to read: General Motors Corporation, guilty; General Motors Sales Corporation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOTORS: The Missing Conspirators | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

A story was going the rounds last fortnight that General Motors liked the railroad equipment business well enough to go in further, thought it was a good idea to put some millions of its enormous resources into buying a piece of Pullman Co. Pullman, No. 1 freight and passenger car...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Cars Loadable | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

To its rescue last week came Northeastern Timber Marketing Association in a deal without precedent. For the sum of $14,400,000, the association agreed to take the entire 600,000,000 feet (95% white pine) off the Government's hands. It agreed to pay an average price of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LUMBERING: Woodpile | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Its beauty is that if one glove is lost, a neuter single can be bought for mating because any glove can be worn on either hand. Die cut, it requires less labor to manufacture than an ordinary glove, but uses up 100% more goods. Priced cheaply, it might find a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Ambidextrous Glove | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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