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...will take some weeks before General Franco can rest and reorganize his forces and replenish his supplies for a big drive on central Loyalist Spain but last week the Rebel commanders began giving Madrid a bloody foretaste of the fight to come. The big guns outside Madrid, fired only sporadically for a year, opened up in earnest and plumped their shells into the city. Twenty-four were killed and 64 wounded in one day's barrage. Rebel bombers this week also resumed heavy attacks on Valencia and Alicante, two of the three main ports remaining in Loyalist hands...
...Passed a bill requiring the capital of the Commodity Credit Corporation to be maintained at $100,000,000, thereby obliging the Treasury to replenish its funds when they are less than that amount and obliging the CCC to turn over to the Treasury its surplus when...
...domestic difficulties of his son were the least of cadaverous-faced Haile Selassie's troubles last week. In an effort to replenish his diminishing funds, the Negus was juggling several lawsuits in the air at once. Pleading that his client, the Emperor of Ethiopia was in a "distressing position," a Paris attorney attempted to convince the French High Court that Haile Selassie was the legal owner of 8,650 shares of Djibouti-Addis Ababa railroad stock worth some $1,500,000. Backing away from a decision that Premier Mussolini would consider hostile, the court decided it was incompetent...
...this method of making everybody but the Collector of Internal Revenue happy was Sears, Roebuck & Co., which paid out approximately all it earned to its 34,500 stockholders, then proceeded to sell them $43,000,000 worth of new stock (TIME, Nov. 9). Since then the necessity to replenish working capital funds depleted by year-end dividends has been a big factor in starting up belated activity in new capital financing...
...Reed, was to publish a warning in the University's daily paper. University of Minnesota's Dr. Ruth Boynton already warned, without much apparent good: "It's burning the candle at both ends. It means burning up more energy than the body has time to replenish. While we know the pills keep one awake, so little is actually known of their cumulative effects that we think it unwise for students to take them without a physician's advice. No more than two of these pills should be taken in any 24-hour period. The size...