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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What happened last week in Detroit was, as all the world knows, just another vortex in the maelstrom that is gradually concentrating U. S. bank control. Whirling daily at a faster rate, there are two main currents in the maelstrom. One is the expansion of single units through mergers and new branches. Of this last week's Detroit merger was an example, as was the Corn Exchange Bank and Trust Co.-National City Bank consolidation (TIME, Sept. 30). The other current is the grouping of separate units through one controlling corporation. Greatest examples of this are the Transamerica Corp...
...Faster trains between New York and Chicago were announced by Lackawanna R. R. The Boston & Main R. R. improved its Boston-Chicago service and put through faster trains throughout New England. The Pennsylvania R. R. cut one day off freight time between St. Louis, Chicago and the East...
...present locomotive which the Timken Co. has ordered from the American Locomotive Co. and will test on roads throughout the country has roller bearings on the driving and tender wheels and on the connection between the main and side rod. If successful it would make good the boast: "Throughout industry the 'impossible' has yielded to Timken design, construction and resources." To the railroads it would bring lower operating costs and the riding comfort that the public, accustomed to buying every luxury desired, is starting to demand from railroads...
...main obstanle obstructing any application of this principle, as President Angell points out is "the difficulty of securing a general agreement among the institutions which compete with one another." These difficulties would surely be considerably reduced if some intercollegiate athletic council existed which could discuss the plan...
...spurs in the 1928 season. To him will fall the punting assignment on the "first string" backfield. Rumors current around the Soldiers Field Locker Building have it that he has been developed into a likely passer, a development which will be followed with interest tomorrow afternoon. His main forte, however, lies in his prowess as on interference runner...