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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...largest single load of mail ever transported by air, weighing 1,839 Iks., has been shipped from Cuba...
...Rochester is the largest city yet invaded by Mr. Gannett, the majority of his papers being in cities of less than 100,000 population. The Hearst and Scripps systems are built around great metropolitan dailies. The cities...
Last week the first of those enterprises both in time and size-the Tokyo Electric Light Co.-offered to sell $121,809,250 mortgage bonds. This is the largest corporate (as distinct from governmental) bond offering and the largest power & light company issue, either foreign or domestic, ever made. And yet investment bankers sought eagerly for allotments. To Japanese bankers went approximately $30,000,000 worth, to British...
That $70,000,000 was the largest foreign financing offered in the U. S. this year, and it brought together 30 of the country's mightiest investment bankers. With the Guaranty Co. as head of the selling syndicate were...
Benjamin Winter, onetime Polish errand boy, continued his gigantic rearrangements of Manhattan real estate by purchasing from Arthur Curtiss James, famed yachtsman and the largest individual U. S. holder of railroad securities, an apartment house on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 81st street. The apartment house, known to phrase-coiners as the house of the golden doorknobs, was the first one in Manhattan to decoy rich tenants out of their private homes. Among its other magnificent appurtenances, it now contains Elihu Root, Murry Guggenheim, Ira Nelson Morris, Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn...