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...Anchorage on the south coast and Fairbanks in the heart of the territory. Moderate in climate, Anchorage is likely to be Army's big home base, and its Elmendorf Field is under construction. Fairbanks is only 356 miles up the Government-owned Alaska Railroad from Anchorage, but Ladd Field at Fairbanks has been laid down squarely in the midst of Alaska's 'toughest winter weather. The ground thaws on top but always remains frozen two or three feet down. There, working three shifts in Alaska's 24-hour summer daylight, Army engineers have laid down...
Proctors in outside dormitories are: Lawrence F. Ebb '39, of Dorchester, John P. Floyd, A.M. '39, of Pasadena, Calif.; Ralph E. Ladd Jr., A.M. '36, of Ipswich, James S. Lanigan '39, of Greeley, Nebr.; and Eugene H. Walker '37, of New York...
...Field Becky Farnsworth, Winchester Gabriel P. Freedman Geraldine Cohn, Radcliffe Sanford J. Freedman Sue Cohen, Skidmore Stanley A. Freedman Joyce Beskind, Great Neck, N. Y. John R Friar Virginia Ranney, Weston Maurice S. Friedman Sally Baker, Radcliffe Raymond Friedman Elayne Frank, New York University James L. Gamble, Jr. Penelope Ladd, Radcliffe Benjamin O. Gardiner Alice Hunsaker, Boston Samuel L. Gittler Bette Lipkin, Vassar Eliot R. Godin Petta Dine, Sargent College Frederick C. Goetz Marian Lippincott, Bradford Morton N. Gondelman Dodie Bloom, Brookline Richard Le B. Goodwin Bess Ogden, Pine Manor Morris Gray Martha Turner, Cambridge David N. Harris...
...reputed price of $1,200,000, straitlaced, teetotaling, 83-year-old Asahel Nesmith Bush ("Asahel II") sold his bank last week to branch bankers from Portland. Third oldest State bank in the Pacific Northwest, Ladd & Bush was also the region's third biggest independent. On its books were $11,220,150 deposits, $508,093 surplus & undivided profits. Once forced to take a $250,000 RFC loan, the Bush Bank nevertheless earned an average $156,400 over the last five years...
Coaxed out of retirement by another New Englander, William Sargent Ladd, Asahel I, at 44, went into the banking business with him and one employe, a cashier. First day Ladd & Bush took in $1,450 deposits, made nine loans on which they collected $221.17 interest (12%) in advance. The bank quoted U. S. Government bonds below par, handled currency only at a discount. At day's end its balance sheet listed $51,450 assets & liabilities. That year the first transcontinental railroad came through...