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...fact that they may be ousted if Japan wins, as U. S. oil interests were ousted four years ago from Manchuria. U. S. investments in China total $200,000,000. In shattered Shanghai U. S. investments totaling a major chunk of this were in danger of going down the drain. Sample: the $57,000,000 Shanghai Power Co., subsidiary of American & Foreign Power...
...succession of business advisers had urged him to do it. Last year it capped its historic record of operations in the red with an all-time high deficit of around $1,000,000. What finally precipitated the obsequies, outsiders were not told, but shutting off this one big drain on Hearst resources could have only a beneficial effect upon the market for securities which Mr. Hearst was planning to sell. Delayed in passage for weeks by successive amendments had been his registrations with the Securities & Exchange Commission of $35,500,000 of debentures- $22,500,000 for Hearst Publications...
Tears are constantly secreted by glands which get their water from the blood and lie just above the outer curve of each eyeball. Tears float slowly over the eyeballs and drain into the nose and throat through two holes at the inner corner of each eye. Ordinarily this flow & drainage of tears is imperceptible, and serves simply to keep the eyeballs clean and slippery. But dirt or stinging stuff in the eyes makes those glandular reservoirs suddenly empty in a protective local reflex. The excess causes weeping, sniffling and gulping, for hard crying produces more tears than the tear ducts...
...hand him the money. Bogen explained this procedure to his partner by saying that it was a scheme for beating the Government out of a big income tax. As Bogen's pursuit of Martha got more expensive but no more successful, so much money went down the drain that the firm's credit was imperilled. Suddenly there was a creditors' meeting, bankruptcy proceedings...
Consequently the big lineman who was prominently mentioned in many All-American teams will be unable to take part in spring football practice which will start soon. After the operation he will be laid up for six weeks for the cut to drain...