Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What part the stalemate in the great Russo-Japanese haggle over the sale of the Chinese Eastern Railway (TIME, Feb. 12) had in all this only the Russians knew. Soviet Ambassador Konstantin Yurenev told Japan's Foreign Minister Koki Hirota that the Soviet Government was ready to "reconsider the invalidation of the bids by Japanese fishery interests." Thereupon Minister Hirota announced that "independent" Manchukuo and the Soviet Union may soon agree on a sale price for the Chinese Eastern...
When Senator Black tried to show that a dead friend of Mr. Brown's had made money from the sale of a Cambridge (Mass.) postoffice site, the onetime Postmaster General cut in: "I assumed the real issue before us was whether I followed the policy of Congress on ocean and airmail contracts, and further, whether I was honest." The hearing took two hours and 15 min. off for lunch...
...will require an increase of authorized Central stock from 7,000,000 shares to 10,000,000, a change from $100 par to no par stock and the stockholders' sanction. Temporary loans were arranged to tide over the period between the maturity of old bonds and the actual sale of new. President Williamson's major problem of 1934 has been solved but heavy over his head still hang bank loans and RFC advances footing up to a total...
...present law, which gives the Federal Trade Commission certain regulatory power over the sale and distribution of securities, may be amended to include supervision of stock exchanges and in this way much of the machinery already set up for the control of security sales will be utilized to take care of stock exchange transactions...
...suggesting the endowment or immediate sale of the Varsity crew quarters at Red Top last week, Mr. Bingham intimated that if it were necessary to sell these buildings that the Varsity squad would be housed in the present Freshman quarters. In this case the Freshman race would be rowed in Cambridge. Although Mr. Bingham expects in this manner to be able to finance the annual $3000 overhead charges for the remaining equipment, it is totally unjustified in these times to spend even this amount on an unnecessary three weeks training period for two dozen...