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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...used for troop ships during the War, were offered for sale by the U. S. Shipping Board as scrap. Famed was the escape from British destroyers of the Kronprinzessin Cecilie, freighted with $10,000,000 gold, into the neutral waters of Bar Harbor, Maine on Aug...
...July a fantastic note was introduced into the proceedings when a buxom mysterious lady known as Jeannette M. Lewis suddenly appeared in Montreal and announced that she was prepared to lend Newfoundland $109,000,000, presumably taking Labrador in security (TIME. Aug. 10). Miss Lewis disappeared and newspapers were about to dismiss the entire story when she reappeared in St. John's in September and made the same offer over again...
...banks failed during a mighty financial storm, seven have paid liquidating dividends. A few, including big Bankers Trust Co., have paid 20%, the others from 10% to 15%. Bank of Pittsburgh last week made a 50% disbursement. In Toledo, where four out of five big banks failed (TIME, Aug. 24), depositors were receiving their first liquidation checks last week: 30% from one bank, 15%, and two of 10% from the others. "I am through with banking and from now on I will confine my efforts to manufacturing," said Clement O. Miniger, robust but lately pale president of Electric Auto-Lite...
...Reparations v. War Debts (to the U. S.) but Reparations v. Private Debts, specifically the enormous short-term loans which U. S., British and other bankers have made to Germany, loans which are at present frozen under the "stillstand" agreement made by the Wiggin committee last August (TIME, Aug...
...August eggs were outcasts. "They tear you down socially," said a Listerine advertisement roundly condemned by New Vork Mercantile Exchange members who trade in eggs for a living (TIME, Aug. 17 ). Last week eggmen were bewildered when a Listerine Tooth Paste advertisement cried: "Eat more eggs. . . . Buy six dozen with that $3 you save." Observers wondered whether eggs and Listerine had come to terms or whether eggs were being shrewdly boosted with tooth paste savings that their odor might be washed away with Listerine...