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...paunchy, grey-haired Oriental President Lewis Henry, of Elmira, N. Y., sold his company to Nihon Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Nippon Mining Co., Ltd.). The deal: $756,700 cash; two payments of $756,700 within 30 and 60 days respectively; $4,542,000 payable by Aug. 31, 1942; $1,362,500 payable by Aug. 31, 1943. All deferred payments were guaranteed by the Yokohama Specie Bank, Ltd., New York City, with interest at 4%. To President Henry-whose late client Jacob Sloat Fassett (onetime Congressman and Republican leader of New York's Senate) was a backer of Promoter Hunt -this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: Chosen Gold | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...Nihon-Jin-Kwai, the 46-year-old club of the Japanese gentlemen of London, rustled with Oriental mirth, when a member returned from Cork, with a tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Plank, Plank, Plank | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

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