Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Weak Yen. Fortnight ago, Japanese Government bonds were quoted. at 90. Last week they had dropped to 76 and the yen was in a precarious position. Pessimists insisted that Japan had funds for only three months of warfare, must collapse financially after that period. Realists pointed that bankruptcy seldom stops wars, but pointed out too that China's finances, almost as precarious, have been in general improving as Japan's declined. Busily touring Europe recently, drumming up loans has been rotund Dr. H. H. Kung, China's Minister of Finance. Loans he got, both in Switzerland...
...Prize was a whopping $135,000 and the race was to be run no matter how bad the weather (TIME, Sept. 7). This suicidal suggestion at once drew protests from airmen all over the world, including Lindbergh, who had not been consulted. Chastened Minister Cot then extended the starting period to a month and closed the race to all but multi-motored planes with radios. But protests continued to spout and the U. S. Department of Commerce finally declared that it would not permit the race (TIME, May 31). By this time the handwriting was clearly on the wall...
...This project," said Mr. Kaplal "is neither fantastic nor farfetched. In the period from 1932 to 1935, 150,000 Jewish immigrants entered Palestine, bringing their own capital of approximately...
...profits. The company neither advertises nor seeks publicity, so the Joslyn plan never made much stir until last winter when the company prepared to sell $1,350,000 worth of common stock. Financial writers then discovered Marcellus Joslyn's old labor policy, adopted during the post-War period of strikes and labor migrations, and Father Coughlin presented him with an oratorical laurel wreath. Scholarly President Joslyn-who is 64, and often mistaken for a doctor because of his black goatee and spectacles, and who still goes to the office every day except Wednesday, when he stays home to read...
...rich. The fund now totals $742,600 and payments totaling $266,000 have already been made. One recent pension was a check for $35,000. A Joslyn worker who has contributed to the fund since 1919 now has a retirement credit nearly half of all his wages during the period. If he retires or is discharged before he is 60 he gets all he put in but only half what the company put in for him, plus compound interest...