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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME, Sept. 7, p. 48: "The U. S. piddles along with a couple of thousand ounces." Should I be as careless in investigating prospects a your mining "newshawk" I wouldn't be in this game very long...
Meanwhile at Odessa, several thousand of Stalin's most industriously toiling "Stakhanovite" workers (TIME, Dec. 16) were accorded the privilege of a holiday at the waterfront while the Soviet steamer Kuban was loaded with clothes and food for Spanish Reds. Several Soviet steamers are now plying back & forth with this exceedingly tame assistance to Spaniards engaged in a death struggle for Communism in their country. At Barcelona last week the Soviet steamer Zirayanin landed 3,000 tons of foodstuffs amid a local celebration by the city's dominant Anarchists, Communists and Syndicalists...
...record," said Truster Bullock, "the majority of our trusts show profit to original investors. One thousand dollars originally invested in every one of the eleven trusts we ever formed . . . an original total investment of $11,000, today would be worth over $11,750. Meanwhile investors have received over $3,000 in dividends, a gain, appreciation plus income, of about 35%." Since 1929, he declared, Bullock trusts have paid out a total of $22,000,000 in cash dividends...
...funeral of Hungarian Premier and Field Marshal Julius Combos in Budapest last week King Edward sent a wreath composed of one thousand roses...
Year ago when the permanent plan went into effect, Banker Nichols grudgingly put the "Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation" legend on his bank statements as required by law. Under the legend he once wrote in appalling taste: "A thousand-and-more years before our Country's famous Hyde Park tenor made his premier appearance in front of the microphone, the principles underlying sound banking existed. They will always exist-not even the melodious croonings of an embittered and frustrated President can change them...