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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Little by little the paralysis crept up the surrounding valleys. In the San Joaquin Valley, 400 workers quit their vineyards. In the Salinas Valley, truck garden for San Francisco, produce was moved east and south, seeking other markets. Throughout the entire area roads were crowded with hundreds, perhaps thousands of refugees from the afflicted zone, mostly women and children being sent to the country where food could be had. By mid-afternoon of the first day it was estimated that 100,000 people had left town in 24 hours. A typical refugee was a steamship executive who moved his family...
...occasion of Mr. Aspinwall's death in 1875. Aged 25, he was taken into partnership in the mercantile firm of Gardiner G. & Samuel S. Howland. his uncles. The firm later fell largely into his hands, developed a thriving trade in the Mediterranean, an unrivalled one in the Pacific and East Indies, a downright monopoly in Venezuela. His venture into the promotion of the 49-mi. Panama R.R., whose eastern terminus was called Aspinwall,* and the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. which linked it to both sides of the continent, was regarded by his associates as a bold speculation for so sober...
Mayor Charles O'Brien of Peoria, Mayor W. O. Summerfield of East Peoria, Illinois' Representative Everett M. Dirksen and a thousand people crowded around the little Fond du Lac State Bank in East Peoria one morning last week. Inside, before the bank opened to the public, a scrawny bespectacled widow in a cotton dress marched up to a cage marked "CASH F. D. I. C. ORDERS HERE," posed for photographers. In her hand she held a check for $1,250, her life savings, which W. Kenneth Hayes behind the counter had just given her. "I don't know...
Following the law, FDIC organized the Depositors National Bank of East Peoria to assume the insured deposit liabilities of the closed bank, receive new deposits, function temporarily. It will try to raise capital to reorganize the bank, return it to private management. If capital is not subscribed within two years, or if no merger with a solvent institution can be arranged, FDIC is authorized to place the new bank in voluntary liquidation, wind up its affairs. East Peoria, whose Caterpillar Tractor Co. foundry was last week closed down to prevent warfare between workers and strike pickets, has not suffered unduly...
...Chicago only six of the 20 major hotels have avoided receivership or bankruptcy since Depression. Among the other 14 are the hotels operated by the Hotel Sherman Co. (the quiet Ambassador East, the gay Ambassador West, the sporty Sherman, the Fort Dearborn where railroad men like to stay), and the roomy, rambling Hotel Drake which has been operated since 1932 by its architect, Benjamin H. Marshall. Fortnight ago the president of Hotel Sherman Co., Ernest Lessing ("Ernie") Byfield, Chicago's best-known hotelkeeper, followed his four hotels into receivership, filed a personal petition in bankruptcy in Federal Court. Last week...