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...troy-oz. bricks. As each truck was loaded it was convoyed by two of the Seventh Cavalry's combat cars on its brief trip to the squat depository building. Few days later the process was repeated as $120,000,000 was shipped from the U. S. Assay Office in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Gold Storage | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

Died. Russell Benjamin Harrison, 82, only son of 23rd President Benjamin Harrison and great-grandson of 9th President William Henry Harrison; in Indianapolis. He was successively an engineer, U. S. Assay Office superintendent, cattle rancher, journalist (Judge), lawyer and Mexican consul at Indianapolis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 21, 1936 | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

Last week, for the first time since September 1934, gold was shipped from the U. S. to Europe. Stout little kegs containing $20,600,000 worth of yellow metal were headed up in the Assay Office in Manhattan, delivered to ships bound for France and The Netherlands. A reversal of the movement that has added $2,700,000,000 to U. S. gold stocks since the dollar was devalued two years ago, the shipments were caused by the dollar's recent weakness in international exchange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Going Gold | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

...brought up so many tons of ore that the market for a time was overloaded, but the success of such modern miners as Lion Feuchtwanger (Power, The Ugly Duchess) and Alfred Neumann (The Devil) showed a renewing demand. Last week's medieval romance. Dew in April, did not assay nearly so high as Power orThe Devil, but it was much solider stuff than last year's highly touted The Fool of Venus (TIME, March 19, 1934). English Author John Clayton, new to the U. S. will not start a critic's gold rush, but Hollywood may well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From an Old Mine | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

...Thrums the drama unrolls itself with absorbing simplicity and beauty. The new minister of the Auid Licht congregation (admirably played by John Beal) has a hard boat to row for these fiercely pious Scotsmen demand a strength and purity in their spiritual leader which few mortals would dare to assay. This little village is rocked by the industrial turmoil which shook all of Great Britain's industrial villages in in the thirties and forties of the last century--the weavers are pitted against the owners and it is a battle fought with true Scottish persistence and doggedness...

Author: By S. M. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 2/19/1935 | See Source »

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