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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shipping jam quickly developed. Manhattan banks bought foreign gold so furiously that they found difficulty in getting it to the U. S. The U. S. Government had already engaged most of the available cargo space for gold it had secretly bought through the RFC. Lazard Frères prepared to ship $5,750,000, National City Bank booked $3,500,000 on the Berengaria, Bank of the Manhattan Co., $8,400,000 on the Bremen and the Manhattan, etc. etc. Every fast ship sailing from northern Europe in the next two weeks was reported booked up full. The limit...
...Institut du Radium's Curie Laboratory, which she founded in 1912, and lecturing at the University of Paris. The old wooden building where she once worked is gone. But in one of the Institute's new buildings on the same street Irene, with her brilliant husband Jean Frédéric Joliot, continues to pry into matter's secrets in much the same way Father & Mother Curie did before...
Because he has been one of its trustees since 1909, because he has served on its executive committee since 1910, because he gave it $1,000,000 cash in 1928, George Blumenthal, retired senior partner of the firm of Lazard Frères, was last week elected seventh president of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. He succeeds the late Furniture Tycoon William Sloane Coffin (TIME...
Reward. French Flyers Codos & Rossi made a world's record distance flight last August from New York to Syria (5,700 mi.), in anticipation of a 1,000,000 fr. prize announced by France's youthful Air Minister Pierre Cot. Having mortgaged themselves up to the hilt to raise some 750,000 fr. for expenses, Heroes Codos & Rossi learned last week that the Government, economizing, had changed its mind about the prize...
TIME did not mean to imply that the potato soup & whipped cream with which Chancellor Dollfuss bulwarked himself after a night of fasting & prayer was his usual breakfast. It is his favorite dish. On milder mornings he takes a standard Wiener Frühstück-coffee with whipped cream, crescent rolls (Kipfel), jam, one boiled egg.-ED. Ethical Bacardi Sirs...