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...little known as the defunct Federal League is tightlipped, bespectacled Clement Schwener, manager of the safe-deposit vaults of Boston's U. S. Trust Co. Kilterless baseball schedules of 25 years ago annoyed his mathematical mind...
Black Lungs. In the late 18th and early 19th Centuries, anatomists making autopsies discovered that some people had black deposits on their lungs. Since many of the bodies were those of miners, the explanation seemed easy. The black stuff was simply carbon breathed in over a period of years as coal dust. When city folk were found with black lungs, the explanation was that the cause was city smoke. Physicians called it "anthracosis." But modern chemistry shows that the black stuff is not carbon. It is a complex "heterocyclic" compound which does many things that carbon does...
...branch plant opened four months ago, 50 more have been ordered or built. Last week a 100-locker branch plant opened for business in Geneseo, Ill. (pop.3,406). To it went customers who had been waiting for lockers in Emil Klinger's filled main plant. For his $10 deposit each newcomer received two keys - one to the front door and one to the locker - and the right to borrow an overcoat from the rack inside, so he won't catch cold getting his food out of his 0°-10° safe-deposit...
...confirming their angelic state by taking the names Rebecca Grace and Onward Universe, they forked out their savings, nearly $1,000. Onward Universe liked the porkchop heaven so well that he stayed put, while Rebecca Grace worked to send Father $70 of her monthly $80 wages, as her deposit in the "Heavenly Treasure...
...powerful individualism, on personal banking freedom the twilight began to fall with the New Deal. The Banking Act divorced deposit banking from underwriting; three Morgan partners, including bland Henry S. Morgan (J. P.'s younger son), accordingly split off to form a new partnership, Morgan Stanley & Co. J. P.'s elder son, Junius Spencer, stayed on as a Morgan partner. The foreign loan busi ness was dead; its epitaph the Johnson Act which forbids U. S. sale of securities of governments defaulting to the U. S. Government. Meanwhile Morgan partners were retiring, dying; from the partnership their heirs...