Word: 57th
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chairman of the Board serve without pay; a bank charging only the " legal rate for interest on loans," without affiliated or subsidiary companies; in short, a " bank owned by the people at large," is the announced project of William C. Durant, spectacular motor financier. Its doors will open on 57th Street (near the tire and motor buildings of Broadway, Manhattan), and it will be known as " The Liberty National Bank...
Street cars in New York make nine miles an hour; those of London, ten. Though the speed limit of New York is 15 miles to London's 12, New York motor buses run at five miles between 31st and 72nd Streets; between 57th and 135th Streets at 11 miles. In London buses do seven miles per hour in the Strand and ten miles on "the comparatively empty" Bayswater Road...
Plans for the women's parliament will be discussed and perfected at a conference of the National Women's Party at Seneca Falls, N. Y., on July 20. "This conference will be held on the 57th anniversary of the first equal rights meeting and the headquarters will be in the hall where the first equal rights conference...