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...handiest places to put dollars safe away from Inflation, Revolution or the tribulations of the New Deal is in International Nickel, a Canadian corporation with most of its properties in Canada and a practical monopoly on the world's nickel supply. Long a favorite with excitable investors, Nickel is officered by U. S. citizens, its shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange and an investment entails no confusion over foreign exchange or incomprehensible balance sheets...
...either leaving the funds in foreign currency or buying gold in the open market; 2) buying U. S. securities having a European market, selling them abroad; 3) buying foreign bonds which are payable in gold, particularly French, Swiss and Dutch East Indian obligations; 4) buying U. S. commodities (handiest: cotton), shipping them to Europe where they are sold and the proceeds left. But with one-third already clipped from the dollar, bankers believe exporting capital now is no more than locking the coop after the bird has flown...
...revenue bill with advice from an imported Canadian expert (TIME, March 7). Scant hearings were held. The rank & file of the House membership were not consulted. The Treasury made no recommendation. The committee put the tax into its bill simply because it appeared to be the easiest and handiest method of raising cash...
...recent questionnaire sent to alumni, over 2,000 replied that they were dissatisfied with their present jobs, or had changed positions many times. This evil of indecision makes many college men take the handiest job rather than the best; it is for these that the Placement Service should and can be a sensible liaison between his college education and after life...
...returns are in gold or silver. He tells, among many stories of adventure for profit. of how he spent a morning in a cage of twenty tigers just to win a small bet. According to him these beasts had a manslaughter record which would send a gang of Chicago handiest to Sing for life. Among other things, having killed many into whose charge they had been put including one very beautiful and famous lady-trainer...