Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vice President The Bank of United States New York City...
...quick tandem bicycle sprint from the CRIMSON Building down to Mount Auburn Street will open the afternoon. This will be followed by a four-in-hand obstacle race to the river bank and the waiting dories. Barring mishaps, the crews will unload after the regatta at Soldiers Field and will finish the quintathion there with the traditional diamond fray...
Ideal would be the bank that had all deposits and no withdrawals. Utopian, of course, such an idea. Yet a long step toward it has been made in the organization of a new (as yet unnamed) trust company in Scarsdale. Unique feature of this bank will be a bill-paying service for depositors. When a bill comes to the depositor's home, it is approved, sent to the bank and paid by the bank out of the depositor's funds. Thus the depositor is saved the mental anguish of writing a check and Scarsdale tradesmen receive prompt remittances...
...service also includes these tradesmen, however, and if their bills are also paid, the bank activities would seem to consist largely of transferring credits from one account to the other, meanwhile retaining all the actual cash. Thus if Depositor Doctor Jones buys an $80 suit from Depositor Tailor Brown, and Depositor Tailor Brown owes Depositor Doctor Jones $80 for services rendered, the bank sends the doctor's check to the tailor and the tailor's check to the doctor and everyone is happy. Manhattan businessmen living in Scarsdale have chartered the bank with capital & surplus of $400.000. Active...
Almost 40 years ago Bridge Builder Gustav Lindenthal strolled along the east bank of the Hudson, looked across the river to the Weehawken side. He could see blue sky and grey water and green trees, but his thoughts were not on the works of nature but on the works of man. Why not (thought he) build a bridge across the river? It was seven years since Engineer Roebling had finished bridging the East River with his famed Brooklyn Bridge. Why should not the Hudson be spanned as well? So Engineer Lindenthal thought of two high towers with long chains sweeping...