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...salted down $250,000,000 in gold bars and his capital totals some $1,400,000,000, not to mention the fabled "Mines of Golconda." In English poesy, these disgorge a never-ending stream of diamonds. They lie immediately west of the city of Hyderabad, India's fourth largest metropolis (pop. 400,000). frowned upon by the beet-domed tombs of the Royal Family (see cut, p. 22) about five miles out in the suburbs. Poesy aside, the Mines of Golconda have yielded diamonds in only trifling quantity and were exhausted long ago. What fooled early English travelers...
...Patriarchate of Constantinople (TIME, Jan. 11, 1932). Next objectives toward establishing intercommunion among all the Catholic churches which reject the Pope's authority and believe broadly in the same dogmas were the other Orthodox Churches of Europe and Asia Minor. Rumania, with 11,000,000 Orthodox, has the largest and most influential church. To Bucharest two summers ago were invited a party of Anglican bishops and theologians, to thresh out theological problems with the Rumanians. After agreeing that Anglican orders are valid, the Rumanian Orthodox requested the Church of England formally to declare its desire for intercommunion...
...manager, Ezra Frederick Scattergood, had handed President Addison Blanchard Day of Los Angeles Gas & Electric Corp. a check for $46,340,000. Private Powerman Day had handed Public Powerman Scattergood a deed to all his company's electric properties free & clear of debt. Los Angeles now had the largest municipally-owned power system in the world...
Even that lumbering colossus, U. S. Steel Corp., outdistanced most Wall Street dopesters, turning in a $20,000,000 fourth quarter with operations at 66.2% finished capacity. Profits for the full year footed up to $50,525,000, largest since 1930 and a phenomenal improvement over the piffling $1,146,000 earned last year. On the strength of this report and the involuntary aid of a flock of bears caught short of the stock, U. S. Steel was run up to $100 per share, par, highest price in six years...
...more than they had learned to expect in the past-a dividend, the first since 1926. Armour's earnings were up from $9,349,000 in fiscal 1935 to $10,239,000 in fiscal 1936. On sales of $82,000,000, up 12%, John Morrell & Co.. fifth largest U. S. packer, showed a profit of $619,000, nearly twice the 1935 figure...