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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would appreciate it very much if you can correct this error for the reason that the Department of Commerce Building is the largest of the group of buildings and the stone contract is the largest stone contract ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 3, 1929 | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...largest hotel in the U. S. is Hotel Stevens on Chicago's Michigan Avenue. Fortnight ago its management, fearful of prohibition prosecutions, declined to serve the accessories of highballs, cocktails et al. Blacklisted were ginger ale, sparkling water, bowls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Dry Ice | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...brother Frank heads F. H. Peavey & Co., world's largest grain elevator system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Yale's Pudge | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...Roger Steffan, onetime Ohio grocery boy, came last week a vice presidency in National City Bank. Many a young bank employe has, disgruntled, alleged that banks promote by seniority, that Age outranks Ability. Yet Banker Steffan, vice president of largest U. S. Bank, is but 36. Born in an Ohio village, that since has been wiped out to make room for a dam, Mr. Steffan has progressed far from his high school days in which he originated, as a class motto, the aphorism ''Impossible is Un-American." He would perhaps now be more inclined to remark that leading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Young Executive | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

Equitable-Seaboard. To a Manhattan blase with bank mergers, the union of Equitable Trust Co. with Seaboard National Bank (the unwieldy new name is Equitable Seaboard Bank & Trust Co.) created no furor. Yet the new institution ranked as fifth largest U. S. bank* with resources of approximately 900 million dollars. The new bank will operate under a state trust company charter, thus marking the passing of another (Seaboard) national bank. Merger terms specified exchange of 1 ½ shares of Equitable for one of Seaboard, the Seaboard share carrying with it a share of Seaboard National Corp., the bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Mergers: May 27, 1929 | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

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