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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Land, buildings, equipment and mineral properties, at cost (except for the inclusion of net revaluation increases by subsidiaries or their predecessors, prior to the organization of the present parent company, of $4,316,994.85 in mineral properties and $241,764.73 in other fixed assets) less reserves for depreciation, depletion and obsolescence...
...weeks after the first issue, TIME moved from its cubicles in the office of an advertising firm (just around the corner from Fifth Avenue and Manhattan's Public Library) to larger quarters on the second floor of an East-side loft building (No. 239 East 39th Street), which prior to Prohibition had been a brewery. Here on Sundays there was heat but it was sometimes hard to gain admittance. One contributor, bringing his weekly contribution and unable to get in, resorted to drastic means. He picked up a rotten turnip in the street, gave a heave, and it landed...
...Ambassador to Russia Joseph E. Davies, before leaving the U. S. last week for Moscow, where he will say good-by to Bolsheviks prior to becoming Ambassador to Belgium, dropped around to the Soviet Embassy in Washington, strongly remonstrated about the case of famed Ruth Marie Rubens (TIME, Feb. 7, et ante). Mr. Davies advised Soviet Ambassador Alexander Troyanovsky that U. S. relations with the U. S. S. R. would become unduly strained if jailed U. S. Citizen Rubens, arrested in Moscow on the night of December 9 in the Intourist Hotel National, was not permitted...
...Open Door" as applied to China means that (1 all nations shall have equal tradings rights in China, 2 emigration to China from other nations may not be stopped, 3 Chinese may not be excluded from this country as they were under the exclusion act prior to the World War, 4 China must grant the great powers extraterritorial rights in her country, 5 the Chinese Government must keep trade routes open between the coast and the interior and protect foreign business concerns using those routes from bandit attacks...
...Erected or existing prior to the Tenement House Law of 1901, which set up standards for future construction, created minimum standards for existing tenements...