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...almost every part of the globe where clothes are worn. So long does it take to assemble Singer figures from the preceding year that the annual meeting can never be held until September. Last week, having accounted for the very last nickel, yen, leu, franc, shilling, florin, drachma, peso, pengo, rupee, escudo, zloty, mark and finmark. Sir Douglas Alexander, Singer's venerable president, announced that profits for the year 1933 were...
This moratorium was no surprise. Wall Street has expected some sort of Hungarian moratorium for months. The fact that it turned out to be only a "transfer moratorium," with pengo payments continuing to pile up in Hungary, softened the blow. But a blow it was. U. S. bankers have extended and U. S. investors hold roughly 25% of Hungary's short-term credits and bonds. On the total U. S. investment of $179,000,000 the loss or postponement of interest and sinking fund charges during 1932 will approximate...
...began worrying, fearing her father had left unpaid debts. To Olga Plepar, medium, she went, talked to the spirit of Geza Barsony, her dead father. He gave her a list of creditors, with amounts owed to each. To the creditors she went, paid out her fortune to the last pengo (18?) though there was no proof of any loans. To Medium Plepar went the police, informed by Irene Barsony's fiance; Medium Plepar & her creditor accomplices were apprehended, returned one-third of the Barsony money...
...lists his recreations as: "Regretting the Bourbons, Repartee, and Tu Quoque." Once an inveterate golfer and left handed cricketer, he now, according to his own statement has "abandant all other athletic interests in order to urge the adoption of new sports, such as, pelota, kif-kif and the pengo. (Especially the latter.)" He possesses the original manuscript of Bishop Heber's famed hymn, "From Greenland's Icy Mountains." Other books: Argonaut and Juggernaut, Who Killed Cock Robin?, Discursions on Travel, Art and Life, Be fore the Bombardment...
Since the War, U. S. financial physicians have gone to the far corners of the earth to stabilize the peso, sucre, zloty, pengo, gourde, piaster, cordoba. Some of them have stepped out of their college classrooms to put their fiscal theories into practice. Some have served only as expert diagnosticians, leaving behind a financial prescription for the country to cure itself. Others have remained at the bedside through long painful years, playing nurse as well as doctor...