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Torgsin Stores (state-owned) were established two years ago, have grown phenomenally in numbers. They sell better goods than other Russian stores at lower prices-but there is a catch. Torgsin sells only for "valuta," a pre-War Russian word meaning "foreign money." Thus no Russian can buy at Torgsin...
Although Western is privately owned, the following facts are known: its assets are around $10,000,000; it has made a profit every year since 1908; its earnings averaged $1,432,000 annually for the five years ended with 1930; this year it may make a million dollars against $878...
MANY THOUSANDS GONE-John Peale Bishop-Scribner ($2.50).* Not only in biography but, more significantly, in fiction U. S. writers are more & more turning to U. S. subjects. And to a generation that is still scraping off the mud and blood of the War to End War the comparatively chivalrous...
Trap. Wall Streeters made up new jokes last week when the New York Curb announced admittance to unlisted trading privileges of the 75,000 shares of Animal Trap Co. of America, Inc. The company carries on a business started in 1896, manufactures "traps for ensnaring rodents and fur bearing animals...
Sirs: I am very much interested in your publicity campaign revealing to motorists the speed traps of the country (TIME, March 30; April 20) and I would like to nominate Willoughby, Ohio, as the capital of these progressive burgs. Willoughby is on the main ''Bootlegging" thoroughfare of the...