Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this thriller, in the somewhat old-fashioned English manner: plenty of atmosphere and a well-defined trail, with the red herrings a little brightly colored. Two characters stand out with pleasant eccentricity: old Mr. Hubbleby, who spends the daylight hours of his vacation riding to and from London on express trains, sleeping at home every night; Pithecanthropus Smith, who is no believer in Sherlock Holmes. Says he: "Detectives frequently have to ask questions which seem impertinent at first, and prove irrelevant at last...
Long has there been theoretical speculation on what would be the liability of American Express Co. stockholders should their company fail, for unlike almost all U. S. corporations, American Express was never incorporated, being a voluntary association (joint-stock company) formed in 1850. Chances of American Express failing have, however, become increasingly slim. In March its domestic express business was transferred to an agency controlled by the railways. In July, Chase National Bank and Chase Securities Co. secured practically all American Express stock...
Chief reason for Chase wishing to own American Express was that its business (done through 35 domestic, 65 foreign offices) amounted to international and interstate banking through the sale of money orders, drafts, travelers' checks, letters of credit, telegraphic and cable transfer of funds, collection of foreign bonds, coupons, legacies, the purchase and sale of foreign moneys...
Last week American Express announced it will form American Express Bank & Trust Co. with $10,000,000 capital. Although the new bank will be incorporated in New York, each American Express office will amount to a correspondent, and, should branch banking laws be repealed, could quickly become a branch. In this way Chase may some day have a nation-wide banking system without buying out-of-town banks or forming new ones...
...Angeles (Glendale Terminal Airport) and for $10 extra reach San Francisco about three hours later. Present (reduced) net charges for transcontinental air rail travel (New York to Los Angeles, over the Maddux Line which recently merged with T. A. T.) are: T. A. T., $267.43; Western Air Express, $211.20; Universal Air Lines System...