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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
Wigglesworth Hall was the scene of one of the first Christmas rackets yesterday afternoon when two men dressed in uniforms very similar to these used by the Salvation Army began soliciting monetary aid for a so-called "Christmas dinner for the poor...
...apparatus is similar in principle to other cyclotrons now in construction or operation throughout the world all of which are based on the fundamental design developed by Professor Ernest O. Lawrence of the University of California, recent recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics...
...turned in the top performance of his cinematurity as Jefferson Smith in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, turns in as good a performance or better as Thomas Jefferson Destry. Marlene Dietrich, as Frenchy, the bad girl of the Last Chance saloon, turns in her best performance since the somewhat similar role in The Blue Angel brought her to Hollywood. To the thrilling question-could Dietrich come back via the western trail?-her bottle-tossing, eye-rolling and shoulder-shrugging, her singing (in a whiskey mezzo) of Little Joe and The Boys in the Backroom supplied the answer. Dietrich...