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...will redeem her immediately,' he said, and produced the bank notes before the proprietor. The proprietor called for the girl's mother. Girl and mother burst into tears. The foreigner was watching the touching scene for some time and then ordered 13 other girls in the house and all the other employes to assemble . . . and gave them 5 yen each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Butterfly Redeemed | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

...years turned up his nose at the Patent Office. Garabed T. K. Giragossian went directly to Congress and enthralled Congressmen for seven years (1917-24) with stories of how the Garabed Free Energy Generator would save the U.S. a $30,000,000,000 annual power bill, win the War, redeem the Sahara, rescue Mankind from the curse of the steam engine, crime and insanity. Mr. Giragossian asked for a special Act of Congress to protect his discovery-"not a perpetual motion machine"-and got such an act (1917). President Wilson vetoed the bill, Congress again took up the matter. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Patent No. 2,000,000 | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

Salesman Morgenthau: In case of emergency, the Government will redeem your bond at any time after 60 days from the date of issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: First Baby | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

...most complicated and most involved in railroad history," Mr. Jones ended up with practically all of the Moffat stock in his bulging portfolio of collateral. To "keep in touch with the situation" Mr. Jones put in his own management. Denver & Rio Grande, still legally the parent company, may redeem its Moffat stock when & if it pays off a total of $10,700,000 in RFC loans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: RFC into Tunnel | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

...January 1932 Sweden slid off the gold standard and into a bold experiment in "managed currency" as the world's economists held their breath. By last week Sweden was so solvent that it moved to redeem the last $13,000,000 of a $30,000,000 bond issue marketed in the U. S. in 1924 and not due until 1954. For the first time taciturn Swedish officialdom, through the National Debt Office, gave credit to the managed currency system. Last week some economists agreed with the Debt Office while others were not so certain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Two Out of Three | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

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