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...over the East River to Brooklyn and the Harlem River to The Bronx. The city's third system is municipally owned. Though it carries no passengers yet, its empty trains have rumbled up & down under Eighth Avenue for a long time just for practice. Last week the periodic threat of city officials to open this line seemed near fulfillment. On Sept. 5, officials say, curious New Yorkers may pay a nickel to ride in the big, shiny new cars. But by law the system must be self-supporting within three years, and Mayor Walker's administration fears that...
...Aged Threat. Only one pacific voice was raised in Nippon last week, that of ancient Count Koken Tanaka, former Minister of the Imperial Household who suddenly emerged from retirement and announced that unless the present Government did not immediately adopt measures to allay unemployment and save poor Japanese citizens from starvation, he would cut open his 90-year-old belly in protest to the Emperor's Ear, Elder Statesman Prince Kimmochi Saonji...
...prices are of little concern to insurance companies if payment of interest and eventually principal is assured, for the bulk of their funds is in bonds and mortgages. Mounting policy loans have given life officials the greatest concern, followed by farm mortgages. R. F. C. credit has removed the threat of wholesale railroad defaults. Federal credit agencies have bolstered the farm mortgage situation. But policyholders of many a company will probably this year receive smaller dividends to credit against their premiums...
Though few U. S. coffee-drinkers knew it, a threat hung over them last week. There was a possibility that soon their coffee cups might not be refilled at the asking, even that they might not be filled at all. The blockade of revolutionary forces in the great Brazilian coffee port of Santos by the Federal Government was threatening the chief source of U. S. coffee. Slipping out after the blockade was established, the last coffee boat from Santos docked in Manhattan Aug. 4 with 13,200 bags aboard...
Shortly after the 1929 stockmarket crash. Travelers received a similar threat, but the policy holder bearded the company in its Hartford home office. Officials pointed out that he was using extortion. He did not kill himself until two years later...