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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Biggest U. S. enrollments...
...depositors simultaneously attempted to exchange paper for gold. And, unhappily, the Industrial Bank had held itself to no fair ratio between cash and paper. Auburn at 514?Johns Manville at 242? Radio at 114?here were bank-branches with a topheavy proportion of notes to cash. Even the biggest and most secure branches, such as General Electric, American Telephone &Telegraph, United States Steel, constituted inflated currency when their securities stood at 403, 310 and 261 respectively. So long as the depositors did not begin to brood over this inflation, no harm was done. But so soon as the lines started...
Baltimore. The biggest Baltimore bank was created last week when Baltimore Trust Co. (total assets over $82,000,000) merged with Century Trust Co. (total assets $17,000,000). After the consolidation a $5,000,000 securities company will be formed. Big names among Baltimore trust executives include U. S. Senator Phillips Lee Goldsborough, Socialite Donald Symington, Banker Waldo Newcomer...
Philippines. A cable from Manila told of the purchase of the Mindoro Sugar Co. by Most Reverend Michael O'Doherty. Roman Catholic Archbishop of Manila, for $1,500,000. This news betokened the continued potency of the Church in the only Christian country in the Orient. By far the biggest business interests in the Philippines are Roman Catholicism's. When the U. S. took the Islands over from Spain, William Howard Taft had to negotiate a separate arrangement with the Church for its extensive "friar lands." settled by early Spanish brotherhoods. The U. S. paid the church...
...girl's eye tooth. It weighed two pennyweights, worth less than $2 in coin value and not more than $5 as dental gold. As a golden rivet, however, its intrinsic value was incalculable, for it | was made to be fastened into the highest j part of the biggest ("master") rib-ring of the biggest dirigible yet planned-the ZRS-4 which the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. was to start building this week for the U. S. Navy, with ceremonies which, however, the funeral of Senator Theodore E. Burton at Cleveland delayed a week...