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...only reason why charitably inclined persons should hesitate to contribute to the fund is that?although their money will save lives this year???they can scarcely hope that any total of contributions, however large, will suffice to permanently relieve the perennial Chinese famine. Such considerations have determined the American Red Cross to send neither food nor cash to China; but persons who give even two cents to the fund may rejoice in the knowledge that they are putting a bowl-full of rice into an otherwise empty and agonized Chinese stomach...
...approval. As in the case of the Nickel Plate System plans, disapproved last year by the I. C. C. (TIME, March 15, 1926), Henry W. Anderson and George S. Kemp of Richmond, Va., who represent Chesapeake & Ohio minority stockholders, are opposing the Van Sweringens now. Hearings may last a year???as they did in the Nickel Plate System case...
Money for investment being plentiful and bond sellers active, the sale of, U. S. corporation and municipal and foreign corporation and governmental bonds reached a new record total the first quarter of this year???$1,687,038,500 ($1,241,863,000 first three months...
...explained that a drive by the Internal Revenue Bureau had brought in an unexpected $100,000,000 of back taxes, that customs receipts were $20,000,000 ahead of expectations and that income taxes were expected to furnish $80,000,000 more than was anticipated earlier in the year???in all receipts were increased...
...admission to stand. And through it all, a person who did not seem to lose her head was the girl with the voice that was creating all the excitement, the girl who had provided the daily press with one of the best human-interest stories of the year???the new prima donna, 19-year-old Marion Nevada Talley, who for the big evening last week was supposed not to be herself but Gilda, daughter of Rigoletto, jester of the Duke of Mantua...