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Last year the U. S. sold Iran $4,339,000 worth of machinery, bought $3,635,000 worth of rugs, furs, gum, quince seeds and pistachio nuts. That this business might be picked up by Britain was curiously anticipated by the London Sphere, which three weeks ago, ran on its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: US for Limbo | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

In Seattle last week, having traveled southward 2,000 miles by plane, another 1,000 miles by ship, was Boris Magids, a stocky, bright-eyed little Jew who is "farthest north" in the chain-store business. His half dozen stores are spotted along 1,000 miles of the Arctic Ocean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Arctic Chainster | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

Trader Magids has been driving an honest Arctic bargain for 20 years. It has to be honest, he explains, because Eskimos are not concerned with how far they go for their shopping. A small slip is likely to drive away a customer who came 400 miles by dog team, make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Arctic Chainster | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

Back from Wausau, Wis., where the temperature was 35°, to Manhattan, Chicago, Los Angeles, other U. S. fur-trading centres, journeyed last week some 70 fur buyers. At Hamburg, 20 miles from Wausau, is the 12,000-acre silver fox ranch of Fromm Bros., world's largest breeders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Furs from .Fromms | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

In practically the same words, Philip Barry has introduced to theatre audiences in the past decade a host of wonderful people, all gold. Dramatized versions of the folk Playwright Barry likes to gather about him, they were grown-ups whose adolescence had been recorded by F. Scott Fitzgerald. If they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Oct. 28, 1935 | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

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