Word: biggest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...biggest question of the next four years is not agriculture or Prohibition, but foreign affairs...
Impressive is the capitalization of "biggest" U.S. banks.*Among them: National City Bank (N. Y.), $75,000,000; Chase National Bank (N. Y.), $50,000,000; Bank of Italy, National Trust and Savings Association (San Francisco), $50,000,000; American Exchange-Irving Trust Co. (N. Y.), $32,000,000; Guaranty Trust...
...from impressive was the initial capital with which many a bank now counted as "biggest," opened its doors. The National City bank claimed but $800,000; Chase, $300,000; Bank of Italy, $150,000; Guaranty Trust...
...Biggest" English banks are Lloyd's (paid capital, $355,762,000); Barclay's (paid capital, $79,291,085). "Biggest" French banks include: Credit Lyonnais (capital, $10,000,000); Societe Generate (capital, $12,000,000); Banque Nationale de Credit (capital, $20,000,000). On April 24, stockholders approved an increase...
...vicious and successful evangelist. The audience is permitted to hear his harangues for heaven and then to overhear the back stage scene wherein Gantry gains quick access to the couch of this ignorant and lusty lady. With her he goes to Atlantic City, to inaugurate a pier tabernacle, the biggest in the world. It is while he is making scurrilous advances to a choir singer that Elmer Gantry, casting away a cigaret causes this gaudy temple to burst into flames-a conflagration reproduced upon the stage with tissue paper and magic lanterns in a manner once realistic but now absurd...