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...that FCA, HOLC and RFC had bailed insurance" companies out of some $523,000,000 of troublesome assets, declared U. S. life insurance policies "the safest of all possible securities." Later when newshawks asked him if the conference was, in effect, a retort to GOPartisan Knox, the President replied: "Res ipsa loquitur...
Sixth in total business was Blyth & Co., Charles Edwin Mitchell's new stand. "Charlie" Mitchell's financing for the first half footed up to $263,000,000. Other ranking houses: Lazard Frères ($168,000,000); Bancamerica-Blair ($156,000,000); Halsey, Stuart ($143,000,000); Lehman Bros. ($137,000,000); A. C. Allyn ($128,000,000); Mellon Securities ($113,000,000); Field Glore & Co. ($113,000,000). Chase National Bank was well up in the list ($136,000,000) with its municipal bond underwriting, which is still permissible for commercial banks...
...that a good jumper lands beyond it, Norway's 21-year-old Birger Ruud. Olympic champion in 1932, jumped 269 ft., won an impromptu tournament. Ablest all-round skier on the U. S. team, Richard Durrance, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen for practice ahead of his confrères, placed 18th - an achievement more creditable than it seems because his specialty is not jumping but downhill racing. Major development in the rise of U. S. winter sports in the last eight years has been the sudden, inexplicable boom in skiing. Increase in the popularity of skiing has been noticeable ever since...
...many years the firm of Kouchakji Frères has had a practical monopoly on excavations on the site of ancient Antioch, the city in Asia Minor where Christians were first called by that name. In 1910 a party of Arab workmen who had often been employed by the Kouchakjis came upon a heap of buried treasure that contained, among other things, a cross, three book covers and two chalices all of silver and all of excellent workmanship. The finders, with a shrewd idea of their worth, traded cross, covers and chalices to a syndicate of Arab merchants, who after...
...Brothers Lumière produced at about the same time pictures thrown on a screen. The Lumière camera which took them could be carried in one hand. The Edison camera of similar date was portable on a truck. Of the early projection machines, the Lumières' was manifestly the best, but it was bad enough, as M. Le President and the diplomats agreed last week. The august audience saw a French train of 1895 chuff into a station, watched a gardener wet a fat man with a hose. Today Auguste Lumière is dead...