Word: jans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...SALE: Cedar Island, .947 acre off Cedar Point, L. I., in the strait between Gardiners Bay and Shelter Island Sound. Includes historic, 97-year-old lighthouse and nine-room granite keeper's house. No conveniences, but ideal for recluse, romantic or for summer home. Send bid before Jan. 15 to U. S. Treasury Dept., Washington...
...Last sales were in July 1935 when five Maine lights went at prices ranging from $652 to $4,100. Expected to be a notable exception is Atlantic City's 82-year-old Absecon Lighthouse, also up for sale last week with bidding to close Jan. 5. After erosion had left the 167-ft. tower a perilous 75 ft. from shore, jetties were built, the sea restored its sand, the city sprawled out over the new land. Now Absecon stands 1,500 ft. from shore, its ocean view blocked by tall apartment houses and hotels. Its 1½acres which...
...Havana last week there was such tension, such scurrying of Government leaders to U. S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery, the arbiter of every Cuban crisis, as there has not been since the collapse of Provisional President Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin's Government (TIME, Jan. 22, 19-34). This pother seemed to be preparation for a showdown between Cuba's military and Cuba's politicians. Real Strong Man of the Army is ruthless Lieut. Colonel Inspector José Pedraza Calvera, but the military's mouthpiece is Colonel Fulgencio Batista who likes to play at being a dictator...
...last year $4,382,717, equal to $4.42 per share on 945,000 common shares outstanding. Assets figured for the last fiscal year were $29,041,380, and including the new financing its funded debt will be only $7,160,000 after Jan...
...take the vice-presidency of Manhattan's rich, conservative First National Bank ("The Baker Bank"), his first job as a commercial banker. Last week, First National's chairman, George Fisher Baker, son and namesake of the founder, announced that President Jackson Eli Reynolds, 63, would retire Jan. 1 at his own request, would be succeeded by Vice President Leon Fraser...