Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...buyers, however, it was necessary to get some U. S. banks to act as agents, to pay out dollars for interest and amortization. The Soviet engaged, among other banks, the Chase National Bank of New York, the Amalgamated Bank of Chicago, the Bank of Italy in San Francisco...
Without official explanation, the Federal Reserve Banks at New York, San Francisco and Minneapolis last week raised their re-discount rates from 3½% to 4%. The Chicago and Richmond banks had done the same the previous week. One effect of the rate changes forecast by financial commentators was that stock market quotations would fall sharply because market operators would find money too expensive to borrow. That did not happen appreciably last week. Another prognostication was that banks would make greater efforts than in the past few months to loan money to commercial and industrial organizations. Nor did that develop...
Pearl Harbor, the great strategic naval base of the Pacific, has been erected at the crossroads of the ocean.* Ships from San Francisco, Los Angeles, Panama, Auckland in New Zealand, Sydney in New South Wales (Australia), Hong Kong, Yokohama, Manila arrive and set forth daily...
California. With President Philip Albright Small Franklin of the International Mercantile Marine Co., Manhattan, among her full complement of passengers, the new Panama-Pacific Liner California (TIME, Jan. 30) left New York last week on her maiden voyage to San Francisco...
...heated to a point at which the elements will fuse." To Mr. Guedalla its mayor, Hon. William Hale Thompson, is "a por- tent" and "a flamboyant emblem." Pleasing in Mr. Guedalla's sight are Iowa, the state universities, the hotels, the promptly-answered telephones, and San Francisco, "tilted city." Most pleasing are U. S. Pullman Porters, to whom, as "charming guardians," he dedicates his book, an occasionally ironical work of affection and romantic wonder...