Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Design: All the new bills are black & green (no more "yellow-backs"). All $1 bills portray Washington, all $2s Jefferson, $5s Lincoln, $10s Hamilton, $20s Jackson, $50s Grant, $100s Franklin, $500s McKinley, $1,000s Cleveland, $5,000s Madison, $10,000s Chase...
...Weather Bureau began functioning last week to protect flying all the way across the continent. In a 400-mi. wide strip from Los Angeles to San Francisco to New York, 60 weather reporting stations have been organized. Day and night they report local meteorological conditions to collecting centres at Cleveland, Omaha, Salt Lake City, San Francisco. From these centres, every three hours, day and night, consolidated weather information on wind direction and velocity, temperature, dew point, air pressure, clouds, is broadcast to passing planes...
...Communism, attacking and destroying what they held dearest: the great Zionist movement which has already given Jews a city of their own, Tel Aviv, close to historic Jaffa. They heard about Jews in Russia who had turned against Jew, striving to abolish from Russia all traces of Judaism. Cleveland's Rabbi Barnett Robert Brickner, fresh from a trip abroad, told his listeners that leading officials had told him it is "the ambition of the Yevseksia [Jewish branch of the Communist party] that the Jewish people in that country shall be assimilated first and that their identity as jews shall...
Eaton. Persistent through denials was the rumor that Cyrus S. Eaton, Cleveland steelman and banker, had purchased working control of United Light & Power Co., midwestern utility with $500,000,000 assets and 1928 gross earnings of $89,000,000. The report was that the Eaton purchase was from the Koppers-Mellon interests. Reports also mentioned the Insull, Bonbright and North American Power & Light interests as United Light & Power purchasers. Cyrus Eaton is called "rich as Mellon" by Clevelanders. Whenever anything really big seems to be stirring in Northern Ohio, rumors mention his name. Last week's Eaton utility rumor...
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