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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whites, 97,800 Negroes, only 5.000 foreigners; 156,300 females, 137,700 males; a birth rate robustly above the high death rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Crossroad Town | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Main points: 1) currencies will be permanently stabilized at the going rate of 176½ francs to the pound; 2) thus France can continue to buy commodities in the sterling area with francs at a reasonable rate, Britain can supply her expeditionary force in France with pounds; 3) neither country will raise foreign loans without consultation; 4) both will collaborate on internal price policies. The accords were entirely unprecedented. In World War I, which was virtually decided by the economic factor, the two countries had nothing but a common grain agreement and, in the last months, transport and food councils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No Better Proof | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...these were told without subtlety, subjective shadings, probings or questionings, its characters were instantly recognizable types. Scarlett's "I won't think of it now, I'll think of it tomorrow" was a catch line. Whatever it was not, Gone With the Wind was a first-rate piece of Americana, and Americans in the mass knew what they wanted before the critics had got through telling them they should not want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Turnover. The oftener a business can turn over its goods, the better chance it has of profit. One way to check rate of turnover is to divide the gross sales of a firm by the value of its inventory. The first component of TIME'S Index is a similar ratio of turnover. It is obtained by dividing bank debits by bank loans; the result is actually a measure of turnover of borrowed capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Index Year | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

General is the agreement that more realistic capitalization, plus economies of consolidation, equipment modernization, would make important rate reductions possible & profitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: When If Ever a Profit? | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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