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...vanishing of the aboriginal inhabitants, to investigate a reported immigration of musk oxen and white wolves from the islands north of Canada. But he was looking for whatever he could find. From the first summer's work he took back to Copenhagen news of a coal deposit containing 50,000 tons, "superior to English coal;" after the second, he had quantities of fossil stegocephali, four-legged amphibians presumed to be evolutionary links between fish and reptiles...
...tailor. "I am glad I am with English people," he said. "England understands trouble and my relations with England were always good. I expect to sleep most of the day." Britons thought it possible he might sleep well, since Sr. Machado is reported to have a personal deposit with the Bank of England of 500,000 gold dollars. Senora Elvira Machado -estranged from her husband for the past five years-was escorted with other members of the fallen Dictator's family to his gunboat-yacht, the Juan B. Zayas, which carried them safely to Key West...
...which the dock was unsuited, the company chartered the dot-like island of Oie. With 4,000 tons of steel, 60 men and ten weeks time, a platform 1,000 ft. long and 450 ft. wide was built over the island and its 17 inhabitants. On the platform was deposit a fleet of airplanes and 3,000 extras. An ocean liner was necessary to carry the workers twice daily between Oie and the nearest hotel at Rügen. No Marriage Ties (RKO). As this picture opens Bruce Foster (Richard Dix) is a sports reporter who, instead of covering...
...budget (see below); $400,000,000 from the regular payment into the Public Debt Sinking Fund. ¶ His "capital" budget, to be raised by special borrowing, will include: $3,300,000,000 for public works; $500,000,000 for direct jobless relief, $400,000,000 to start the bank deposit guarantee fund. Domestic Allotment farm relief, home and farm mortgage relief, etc. Special taxes have been segregated to service this special budget. ¶ During fiscal 1933 the Public Debt increased $3,051,000,000 to $22,539,000,000 -high point since 1922. The incease in the Public Debt...
...Governor Montagu Norman of the Bank of England "with his vest unbuttoned." (Governor Norman, lolling back with unbuttoned vest, refused to loan an additional ?1,000,000 to Mr. Morgenthau's Greek Refugee Settlement Commission until reminded that the Greek Government could withdraw a ?2,000,000 gold deposit from the Bank of England and take other steps. While Mr. Morgenthau outlined these steps Mr. Norman petulantly buttoned his vest, snapped "You know too much!" as THE BRONX'S "UNCLE HENRY" . . . was noticed. he popped the last button into place and authorized the loan...