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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defense of the area, and by week's end 1,000 of them were on their way to Chungking, China's inland capital, 500 miles inland from Hankow. Foreign observers last week estimated that at least 60% of the machinery from the steel, iron, rice, flour and oil plants in the Hankow area had been moved into the interior. Along with the machinery went the thousands of workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Hankow | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

Devised by the Wall Street house of John J. Bergen & Co., Ltd., the new issue is composed of $4,000,000 in 5% debenture shares to be sold at $25 each. Convertible into stock at fixed intervals, the debentures carry no lien but Sunray Oil covenants not to create any mortgage, pledge or lien upon its shares unless the new debenture shares are equally secured. In having no fixed maturity, the new issue is like a consol or certain British "debenture shares." Where the new issue is unique is in Sunray's contract to set aside a sinking fund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Contractual Obligation | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

Energetic Yaleman Turck last month officially announced the formation of Holland House, with such potent directors as Chase National's Winthrop Aldrich, International Business Machines' Thomas J. Watson, Standard Oil of New Jersey's W. S. Farish, Author Hendrik Willem Van Loon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Clearing House | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...Netherlands Government came through with $14,000, various interested companies, such as oil, agreed to put up some $5,000 apiece annually for five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Clearing House | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...relay spree celebrated the inauguration of service over the league's new head quarters station. At Brainard Field, Hartford's municipal airport, A.R.R.L. had had its station WIMK to cover the world until the 1936 Connecticut River Valley flood covered the station deep in mud and oil, wrecked it. Founder Maxim had died a month before the flood, was succeeded in the league's presidency by Dr. Eugene C. Woodruff, head of Pennsylvania State College's departments of Electrical and Radio Engineering. Under President Woodruff's leadership, $18,000 was appropriated by the League...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: CQ Conn | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

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