Word: midwood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lost in 1930. Up $26,000,000 since Mr. Gibson took charge, deposits are still down $153.000,000 from the quar ter before Bank of U. S. failed. In July Banker Gibson began a series of mergers and liquidations by Manufacturers. Two banks it took to itself by mergers (Midwood Trust of Brooklyn and Brooklyn National Bank of New York). Three (Midtown Bank, Lebanon National Bank, Bryant Park Bank) it held at arm's length "solely as liquidating agent," the same basis as that on which the seven other banks were taken over by the Gibson-headed group last...
...certain Mr. Midwood, standing among 250,000 people who spread like a dark fungus around the crooked oval that is the Aintree course, the moments between the last jump and the finish must have been trying. Mr. Midwood is a Liverpool cotton broker who never bets on horse races, who once paid $53,000 for Silvio to win the Grand National, but failed, and admits that he does not know the pedigree of Shaun Goilin, whom he calls "a thoroughly Irish horse." As he watched Sir Lindsay and Melleray's Belle moving away, Mr. Midwood may have questioned...