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Atlanta. 50th biggest U. S. bank. Largest bank in 13 Southern States. Largest bank south of Philadelphia. These were the claims to size made by the new First National Bank of Atlanta, Ga. To form the institution last week the Atlanta and Lowry National Bank announced plans to merge with the Fourth National Bank. Combined resources will exceed $140,000,000. Presidents of the merging banks are John K. Ottley and T. K. Glenn, identified with Coca Cola Co. Worcester. In Worcester, Mass., the Worcester County National Bank, The Second National Bank of Barre and the North Brookfield National Bank...
...pleased at Carnegie juries' selections, began to snarl, declaring that the canvases were picked by admen and suitable only for reproduction in Sunday supplements. This year no great name was accorded a prize. The first award was won by Felice Carena of Italy, whose picture The Studio was largest in the exhibition. It depicts the interior of an Italian atelier as it probably never appeared. Although it is oldfashioned, shrewd critics observed its prize-winning attributes-size, arresting subject matter, the "important-work" appearance of a tour de force. Felice Carena, little known...
...missionary of peace." U. S. Railroad Unions, with 400,000 members, have long been eyed wistfully by the A. F. of L. At the convention a representative of one of the rail unions said: "I don't know why our brotherhood should not be in this, the largest labor organization in the world."* Elated, President Green enthused, "No more significant event has ever happened in the history of the A. F. of L. than this announcement." Injunction Power is the breaker of strikes, the bane of organized labor. For its restriction the A. F. of L. executive council concocted...
...year round, while one division is at school, the other is working. The A students study while the B students hold down the jobs. Then they shift. Most undergraduates are employed in nearby Cleveland and Dayton, in department stores, landing fields, newspapers, advertising agencies, factories. One of the largest single employers of Antioch brawn and brain is General Motors Corp. Last year General Motors supplied positions at Oakland Motor Car Co. (Pontiac, Mich.), Frigidaire Corp. (Dayton), Fokker Aircraft Corp. of America (Hasbrouck Heights, N. J.), General Motors Proving Grounds (Milford, Mich.), Cadillac Motor Car Co. (Detroit), Chevrolet Grey Iron Foundry...
...cotton industry. He patented his machine and, in partnership with Edward Drummond Libbey, started making bottles in a one-story frame building in Toledo, Ohio. Since they had patents on the only bottle-making machine in existence, they prospered. The Owens Bottle Co. of Toledo, has long been the largest bottle manufacturer in the world. Its absorption of the Illinois Glass Co. last spring further underlined its importance. From its 17 factories pours every conceivable kind of bottle, from one-tenth ounce perfume containers to freaks of 13-gallon capacity. Some 2,000,000 nursing bottles are produced each month...