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...close for three weeks (TIME, May 2), most Tokyo banks opened last week voluntarily, displaying huge piles of bank notes on their counters to convince depositors that all who wanted it could withdraw spot cash.* By this stratagem the public was apparently convinced that immediate disaster did not impend, and withdrawals grew lighter as the week progressed. Eventually re-depositing began and the panic seemed...
...Another leads its front page with a story picturing the armed menace of the new Germany. Others discussed the rumblings of war that have thundered out of China ever since the Nanking incident. Every paper carried a story on the Balkan situation. In four different places does war impend...
...knows, the Andrews expeditions have thus far unearthed sufficient in the way of dinosaur skeletons and eggs, rare baluchitheria and traces of Mousiterian man to substantiate Dr. Osborn's hypothesis in spectacular fashion (TIME, Oct. 29, 1923, et seq.). The program has been extended and paleontological portents impend for four years to come. "Asia is the mother of the continents...
...Marseilles in gulafres and dromons. Orena thought of a thousand centuries budding and withering, and called him Octans. It was extraordinary that they should be sharing this "tazza" thus. "The absence of conventionality sent the blood to her cheeks." But "she was cognizant of the crises that impend in all human breasts" and considered that "innocent intimacy was preferable to unacknowledged proximity." She grew deeply attached to him; he of course worshiped her abjectly; they lived together through months of celestial bliss, gorging on succulent, ambrosial fruits, observing luxuriant inhabitants of the air where "giant ferns grew rank by fetid...
This decision leaves the Remington Cash Register Co. relatively free to continue as chief and most aggressive competitor to the National Cash Register Co. Other related suits impend.** But the Remington people are going right ahead with their production and sales. Already $1,500,000 has been invested in developing and pushing the Fuller arrangement, of which some 58,000 have already been manufactured. Also 3,000 workmen of the Remington forces can keep their jobs...