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...employe retirement, etc.) of $750,000,000. The smartest fiscal brains in the Federal service are employed to manipulate this debt to the best government advantage. The Treasury's long-range purpose is to filter the bond obligations gradually down through the short-term debt class and thus extinguish them. Its immediate purpose is to keep its notes, certificates and bills turning over & over in such a way that it will get the most money for the least interest...
...about $20,000,000 in cash on hand to start making loans; 2) income tax payments up to March 15 will supply enough additional cash to tide the bureau over until the Treasury's March financing; 3) short term loans will raise $200,000.000 in cash which will extinguish an equal amount of securities deposited in the $750,000,000 bonus reserve fund; 4) another $200,000,000 will come in the June financing...
Definitely the whole tone of the Soviet crusade to extinguish religion became less hysterical as the week advanced. Addressing a Moscow mass meeting of The Militant Atheists, Chairman Emelyan Yaroslavsky said that the Government deplored efforts to progress too rapidly with spectacular wholesale destruction of churches and the burning of ikons by the carload in public squares. He advised less attention to such externals, more concentration on lectures and house-to-house work among those from whose minds and hearts the Communist missionary seeks to remove belief...
Here is the true story of Supaya-lat (as Author Jesse spells her) and how she came to be Thibaw's queen; how the riotous, sometimes murderous goings-on in the Golden Palace of Mandalay finally brought the British to Upper Burma, to extinguish in one night the picture-book existence of the Lord of All Power and Glory, the Centre of the Universe...
Fire, of undetermined origin, completely destroyed the Soldiers Field Locker Building early this morning. The three-alarm blaze, which commenced a few minutes before midnight, gained such a start that the three dozen odd pieces of apparatus and their complement of fire fighters were absolutely helpless to extinguish the flames. A crowd of upwards of 4,500, made up largely of students, watched hungry flames turn into belching smoke and a tangled mass of debris all of the medical equipment of the Athletic Association, trophies of generations of Harvard victories, over 300 complete football outfits, 100-odd baseball uniforms...