Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Herbert Kenaston Twitchell, 62, president of the Seamen's Bank for Savings (Manhattan), descendant of a Twitchell who arrived in Massachusetts in 1633; of intestinal infection; in Brooklyn...
...four years, Wall Street has been noisier than ever before in its history. It has seen a stream of gold pouring in from abroad. Between 1923 and 1928, the U. S. exported gold worth $500,000,000, but imported $1,000,000,000. Each $1 of gold in a bank reserve means a potential $13 of credit. In four years, the U. S. in this way alone added $6,500,000,000 to its credit resources. It could finance a building boom, a Florida boom, vast instalment selling, new highways, new factories. It had enough credit to support a continuous...
Long before the days of scientific dredging, Plato and his friends sat at the baths discussing an ancient and powerful kingdom, an ideal commonwealth which had sunk into the sea: Atlantis. Others took up the tale; medieval writers made much of it; Brazilian legends still stimulate searching parties. The bank itself has been thoroughly mapped by H. M. S. Challenger (1873-76), the German ship Gazelle (1874-76), the French ship Travailleur (1880), the U. S. ship Blake (1877), the expedition of H. S. H. Prince of Monaco, the German Validivia expedition...
...Manhattan, Horace F. Poor, 50, president of the Garfield National Bank, crawled out of a sick bed and wobbled to an open window. Once there, he made as if to leap out, down to the street four floors below him. As he did so, Ella Randolph, his nurse, scuttled across the room to stop him. Just as Horace Poor toppled over, she grabbed his ankles and held them so that he hung down head first, looking into the hot crowded street and waving his arms...
...sealed hole in the top and a ballast to make it stay upright. After completing it, Jean Lussier had been forced to hide his ball in a barn lest the Canadian Government take it away and prevent his stunt. No less than 100,000 people gathered on the river bank, most of them hoping that the ball would break on the rocks under the 155 foot water-drop...