Word: centralizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...building began last week to receive some $400,000,000 in gold and silver from the smoke-stained old San Francisco mint at Fifth & Mission. The two storage vaults, 48 x 78 and 28 x 52 ft., are equipped with triple-locked doors, wired with microphones so a central guard room hears every sound in the vaults. Trucks enter the mint through an anteroom guarded by a pair of steel portcullis doors of which only one can be open at a time. Corridor corners are mirrored so guards can see around them. A fan system sucks all waste...
Onetime (1925-29) U. S. Ambassador to Spain Ogden Haggerty Hammond, 67, vice president of the ist National Bank of Jersey City, was fined $1 for walking his wirehaired terrier in Manhattan's Central Park unleashed and unmuzzled...
...first to go was Captain Lehmann. Just before he died he said: "I intended to stay with the ship as long as I could, until we could land her, if possible. But it was impossible. Everything around me was on fire. The windows were open in the central control cabin and I jumped about 100 ft. My clothes were all ablaze...
...Dawes family, Recovery was well enough advanced last week to enable it to pay Reconstruction Finance Corp. double liability of $1,027,600 on stock holdings in Chicago's destinct Central Republic (Dawes) Bank & Trust Co. (TIME...
...world's mounting gold output disturbed even the august assembly of the Bank for International Settlements meeting last week in Basle, Switzerland. On hand were such central banking potentates as Britain's Montagu Norman, Germany's Hjalmar Schacht, France's Emile Labeyrie. Representing the U. S. was Vice President Samuel A. Welldon of Manhattan's First National Bank...