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Industrial stocks immediately shared the spirit of sacrifice by slumping an average of two yen (60?). The Cabinet hissed its rage at Minister of War General Senjuro Hayashi who, having taken the precaution to be 200 miles out of Tokyo at the moment, replied, "I had not even seen the pamphlet...
Last year the Oriental haggle began with a ridiculous Japanese bid of 50 million gold yen,† offered through the Manchukuo Government. Russia countered with an asking price of 250,000,000 rubles. By fits and starts the margin narrowed, between intervals of "deadlock," to a bid of 150,000,000 yen, an asked of 190,000,000 gold rubles. Last week the semi-official Rengo News Agency announced that the agreed price for the Chinese Eastern was 170,000,000 yen ($50,728,000 Roosevelt), plus Soviet Russia's recognition of Manchukuo...
...Gold yen: 500 gold...
...Singer Manufacturing Co. sells sewing machines in almost every part of the globe where clothes are worn. So long does it take to assemble Singer figures from the preceding year that the annual meeting can never be held until September. Last week, having accounted for the very last nickel, yen, leu, franc, shilling, florin, drachma, peso, pengo, rupee, escudo, zloty, mark and finmark. Sir Douglas Alexander, Singer's venerable president, announced that profits for the year 1933 were...
...West Indies, Europe, China, is now stationed with him in Washington, D.C. Shapely, sprightly, a crackling talker, she has produced, besides a daughter, five books by the way (others: Letters to a Djinn, The Heaven and Earth of Dona Elena, The Almond Tree, The Bitter Tea of General Yen...