Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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British doctors, approving heartily of Commissioner Lansbury's efforts to arrange for sun bathing, wondered how he would arrange for the sun. London is as far north as Labrador. In 1927 there were but 183 London days in which less than .01 inches of rain fell...
Golfer, musician, horseman, photographer, Conservative Sir Douglas has been symbolic of his Conservative company. Made a baronet in 1921, he has worked strenuously in both the Manhattan and London offices, has pushed the European development rapidly. Last week he some-what altered his policy of reticence, told stockholders more than the earnings, which were...
Brown Derby Bricks. A house built of bricks without mortar would fall down unless all the bricks had grooves grooving into each other. Of a patented grooved brick and a $100,000,000 concern to market it there was much talk in London last week, the talk emanating from William F. Kenny, who made a fortune out of contracting, is director of Chrysler Corp., became famed last year as Brown Derby's Best Friend. Grooved bricks, said Tycoon Kenny, will reduce building costs by 20% besides successfully resisting Wind & Storm...
...that time N. W. Harris & Co. opened a Manhattan branch in 1890. This branch thrived under the direction of partner N. Wetmore Halsey* and later of partner Allen B. Forbes and became Harris, Forbes & Co. There are today Harris, Forbes & Co. branches in Boston, Montreal and London, the original N. W. Harris Co. survives in the Harris Trust & Savings Bank of Chicago. Mr. Forbes died in 1923, and Lloyd W. Smith, Harris, Forbes president since 1921, became also chairman...
Last week the National City Bank acquired another title of magnitude, the ultimate title, in fact, of "biggest in the world." Its merger with the Corn Exchange Bank Trust Co. swelled its resources to $2,386,066,401, a total sufficient to nose out the former "biggest," London's Midland Bank, Ltd., by a bare 83 million...