Word: midlands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henry Fowler, chief mechanical engineer of the London Midland & Scottish Railway Co., was motoring to Derby to work. At an intersection a police officer stopped the car momentarily, then beckoned it on. Sir Henry and the officer nodded cordially. It was his son George, a Cambridge undergraduate, who is working as a constable during his vacation. Explained his father: "Start in Scotland Yard? Certainly not! He is starting at the bottom as an ordinary uniformed policeman...
...interest paid at current rates, but successive reductions brought the rate to 2¾% in 1888, 2½% in 1902. There is also a 4%, issue of Consols, sold in 1927. These bonds have no maturity date. A favorite section is "Home Rails," including, of course, Great Western, London, Midland & Scottish, Southern, and Metropolitan ("Mets"). Foreign rails include Antofagasta-Bolivia Railroad ("Fags"), Canadian Pacific, and Costa Rican. The bank division lists the British banks, also Chartered Bank of India, Bank of Hongkong, National Bank of Egypt and others. Imperial Chemical heads the chemical group while the textiles include Celanese, Coats...
...London, Midland & Schottish...
...Midland Bank ?1 3 19/9...
...Remington Rand's most prominent banking sponsor. For just as Chairman-President James H. Rand Jr. has built far beyond his father's original business, so has his cousin George F. Rand Jr. succeeded and surpassed his father and is now the alert president of aggressive Marine Midland Corp., holding company for 18 New York State banks...