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...came the pinkish reflection of the midnight oil, on its checks were shadowed the black pouches of overwork. Before the figure stood a woman: "Why, then, 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky. What need we fear, who knows it?" With these words she vanished. The gabardined figure shrank. In her place there crouched an old man, dragging one of his withered limbs: "It is not resentment for the past that stings me," he shrieked in the falsetto of age, "I seem to foresee what I am doomed to suffer from these men in the future." He was, gone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

...That Kuhn, Loeb's deposits of $88,550,000 at the end of 1929 shrank to $29,100,000 on Dec. 31, 1931; that on the latter date it had more than $40,000,000 in cash & Governments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: House of Kuhn & Loeb | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

...That Kuhn, Loeb's assets shrank from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: House of Kuhn & Loeb | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

...longing for life, for knowledge, for power, and love, ere it were too late. In the distance was the rumble of vernal thunder. Starting the old fellow from his melancholy reverie came a knocking, one, two,--three. He rose hastily, slid back the bolt on the studded door, and shrank back. "Bin ich ein Gott!" he murmured...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/18/1933 | See Source »

...home construction division. Last year Sears made $12,170,000. International Harvester, hard hit by dwindling farm income, reported a $7,583,000 deficit. American Water Works & Electric's profits dropped from $6,399,000 in 1931 to $3,692,000. Big General Electric's profits shrank from $40,957,000 in 1931 to $14,404,000. Radio Corp., which, despite its spectacular opportunities, has never paid a common dividend in its history, showed a $1,334,000 loss against a $769,000 profit the year before. Borden Co. (milk) reported a profit of $7,524,000 against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Earnings, 1932 | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

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