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...municipalities who in effect have pooled their insolvencies with Reichsbank Governor Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, today the representative of such SUPERINSOLVENCY that creditors of Germany throughout the world dare not for the sake of their own bluffs call his bluff and in effect Germany gets along as if she were solvent...
...meteorological and commercial reasons, when summer ends, the radio season begins. Some broadcast sponsors think programs may be spoiled by summer static; others believe listeners are cool when the weather is warm. By last week, however, practically every solvent producer of consumer goods in the U. S., cheered by signs of recovery (see col. i), had laid his plans to tap the national pocketbook by tickling the national ear with the mightiest and most expensive free show since radio began...
Thirteen years ago Dr. Edward Adelbert Doisy of St. Louis obtained thousands of gallons of urine from pregnant women in lying-in hospitals. To extract the potent substance he was looking for, he devised his own condensers, experimented with distilling apparatus, tried one solvent after another. In August 1929 he reported isolation of the hormone in pure crystals. It was present in the parent fluid to an extent of one part in 4,000,000. Since then theelin has been used to treat hemophilia, periodic migraine, menstrual disorders, infantilism, frigidity, delayed puberty, physical and psychic malaises associated with the menopause...
...canneries, the profits to be distributed to the needy in cash and kind. Other jobless Mormons will be put to work on a church-building program, cost of which will be shared between localities and a national Mormon fund. This fund is to be swelled by contributions from solvent Mormons who will be expected to abstain from at least two meals on one Sunday each month (minimum estimated cost: 5? per meal). Mormons who have been slack about tithing 10% of income to their Church will be prodded into action...
...fact that Government bonds are tax free. With income taxes what they are, the net yield on Standard's bonds to a big corporate investor is only about 2.65%. What makes Standard's bonds so desirable is that there are relatively few bonds of big super-solvent industrial corporations on the market. Big institutional investors snap them up to keep their portfolios diversified...