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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worth of ordnance, shells, torpedoes (at nearly $20,000 apiece) from a large East Coast manufacturer of steel mill machinery. Buyers: Russia, Turkey, France...

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

When Congress gave Franklin Roosevelt the kind of Neutrality Act he wanted fortnight ago, profiseers dusted off their crystal globes, looked hard and long, saw a billion dollars worth of lush war orders for U. S. industry. To the U. S. came seven foreign missions, ready to take advantage of cash-&-carry. Up to this week their checkbooks still bristled with unused checks...

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

...believe that to accord the creditor his full right of priority against the corporate assets . . . the stockholders' participation must be based on a contribution in money or in money's worth...

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

Fans who like their war paint thick, their war whoops bloodcurdling and their arson Technicolored, get their money's worth in this picture. Others may be as thankful as the settlers when the war is ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 20, 1939 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...white elephant, published it himself and sold over 90,000 copies. Letters began to pile up on the foot of Rhea's bed, and, unable to answer them individually, he one morning sent out a note to the effect that if & when he had anything worth saying, he would mimeograph it and send it to anyone who wanted it. Last year over 5,000 clients paid $40 a year for Rhea's "Dow Theory Comment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Prophet in Bed | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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