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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In May 1937 Entrepreneur Myers began promoting a deal: let little TVA buy Nebraska's private utility systems outright, finance the purchase by a bond issue of about $90,000,000. Banker Myers tied up with young Paul H. Nitze, a former officer of Dillon, Read & Co., arranged a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBLIC UTILITIES: Myers Deal | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

Before approving the transaction the FPCommissioners asked Promoter Myers some questions. He said his commission was 24½% or $504,899 on the deal. After a split with Partner Nitze, and expenses, he expected to net between $70,000 and $80,000. On this basis his commission on the entire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBLIC UTILITIES: Myers Deal | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

Gifts from many sources included rare plants from tropical Africa, China, Alaska, Cuba, Italy, Philippine Islands, Crete, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and various parts of Canada and continental United States. Field expeditions gathered specimens in Louisiana, North Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia and Dominica, and thousands of other specimens were acquired by purchase...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 48,000 Specimens Of Plants Gained By Gray Herbarium | 1/6/1939 | See Source »

Since the U. S. is bound to figure financially in any Jewish territorial solution anyway, and since Mexico owes us a mounting debt for recent land confiscations, and since a good portion of Lower California is already owned by U. S. citizens (and therefore presumably confiscatable), therefore Mexico's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 2, 1939 | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

Fortnight ago the U. S. Export-Import Bank granted China $25,000,000 worth of credit for the purchase of American agricultural implements and machinery. Prompt use of this credit was made last week when China purchased 1,000 trucks from Chrysler and General Motors which could be used to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Money and Meaning | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

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