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Nutrias behave rather like muskrats. A pair sets up house by digging a burrow into a stream bank, or building a house of reeds. The female starts breeding at about one year old and produces two or three litters a year. Because the young ones generally live with their parents for some time, the original home soon becomes a teeming colony full of descendants and in-laws...
Died. Gordon S. Rentschler, 62, chairman of the board of directors of the National City Bank of New York; of a heart ailment; in Havana. He was once described by the late Fiorello LaGuardia as "the one banker I know who has none of the traits of the pawnbroker...
Died. Saul Singer, 66, onetime chairman, Executive Committee of the Bank of United States, who progressed from rags to riches-and then to Sing Sing for his part in history's biggest* bank crash; of a ruptured artery; in Miami Beach. Out of jail in 1935, he headed for Texas with $75.74, started all over again, became a major independent oilman...
...Wind. It was a disaster that had made Haussermann a miner. In 1911 a typhoon swept northern Luzon, flooded the tiny Benguet Co.'s only mill, bankrupted the owners, and left the Bank of the Philippine Islands with a worthless batch of loans. To retrieve its stake, the bank picked Haussermann, Benguet's lawyer, who had come to the islands in 1898 as a second lieutenant, had stayed to become an assistant attorney general in the new Philippine's government...
...Judge" Haussermann floated 200,000 shares of new stock, borrowed $75,000 from the bank, built a new mill and started mining ore. In two years he paid off the bank's loan to Benguet. Gradually, he increased his own stock holdings out of earnings until he owned a controlling interest of about 30%. (His original investment was eventually worth...