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Last month RFC lent $1,300,000 to Metals Reserve Corp. to drill the rest of a tunnel to connect up the Barstow mine (once owned by Harry Payne Whitney), the Black Bear (once Rockefeller's) and adjacent mines. All these properties are now owned by Idarado Corp. and have been leased to Metals Reserve on a royalty basis. In addition to lead and copper, the Government especially hopes to get 5,600 tons of zinc the first year. Long John's tunneling tempo was needed again...
Insulted and Injured. Modern readers know Griswold because of someone else. A penniless, difficult poet dogged him all his life. This poet was drunk, tormented, wild. Griswold replaced him as Graham's editor. Griswold quarreled with him, patronized him, lent him money, and after his death became his literary executor. He did one of the poorest jobs with the richest material that any literary executor has ever done. This poet (or someone writing for him) said what Griswold was and would be with deadly accuracy: For gotten, save only by those whom he has injured and insulted, he will...
...anxious twitchings of an expectant father popping into the office at regular five minute intervals for news of "that phone call," to the sad lament of a jilted romeo whose best girl forsook his unpredictable Navy Blue Baker for the consistent khaki of an Army Officer. Because I have lent a patient ear, and have even, upon request, given my Yeomanly advice, I have heard myself referred to on occasion as "Mr. Anthony," Concerning this last tribute, of which I must protest my unworthiness, I should like to comment in the following brief poem...
...promise in undeveloped resources. The greatest stimulus for development is a ready market, and so, because basic foods, for instance, could be raised more cheaply in new countries, Britain opened her home markets to farmers and ranchers of the U.S., Argentina, the Dominions. At the same time British investors lent money to build railroads, grain elevators and packing plants in new countries whose produce was being encouraged. By & large the process was profitable both to lender and borrower...
British manufactures for export rose with the new trade that was created. The total of British trade was further swelled by shipping, banking and insurance services rendered, and British balances were kept fat by interest and principal payments on money lent abroad. Gold tended to accumulate in English hands, simply because a more advanced country finds itself able to maintain a higher rate of saving...